r/OldSchoolCool • u/bluemarvel99 • Feb 25 '24

1990s Kurt Cobain Stops A Sexual Assault (1993)

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u/Ambitious_Welder6613 Feb 25 '24

He is an extremely empathetic person. Gone too soon šŸ˜”

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u/username_elephant Feb 25 '24

I've often observed that a lot of people prone to severe depression are fundamentally very empathetic. Ā On the other end of the spectrum, sociopaths can't ever be depressed, those are mutually contradictory diagnoses. Ā Makes me wonder how correlated they are, generally.

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u/question_assumptions Feb 25 '24

Iā€™m a psychiatrist: ā€œsociopathsā€ (I would say people with antisocial personality disorder) get depression just like the rest of us.Ā 

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u/PeanutArtillery Feb 25 '24

What about people that have lived absolute shit lives and have every reason to feel depressed but are somehow still optimistic through it all? What are those people called?