Hmm... That's a good question Voyage I definitely feel as if people who are depressed *tend to* react to criticism differently - I think it's a lot easier to take things personally when we're depressed. When someone gives us criticism, we usually see it as an attack, or a list of all the things that we've done wrong, and a sign of our extreme imperfection, rather than constructive criticism - a way to improve ourselves. I think with depression, generally speaking, it makes everything seem gloomy and/or hopeless, and a lot of that stems from ourselves, and our own personal dissatisfaction within ourselves - when other people give us criticism, sometimes that makes us shut down, rather than fuel our desire to tweak things and improve... I think it also depends on how the criticism is given. What do you think?