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Old Jul 29, 2014, 08:06 AM
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Hi,
Somehow it is true, but it is not about severe depression, but milder ones. On the other hand, hope is a tool for self-preservation. The total absence of hope would be dysfunctional at biological level, in my opinion. But I can be wrong
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel