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Originally Posted by scorpiosis37
Thank-you. I really appreciate the kind words.
I can definitely relate to depression while on the academic journey; it's tough! I made it into the profession, but feel situationally depressed because it's just not where I want to be. The amount of sexism and homophobia and back-stabbing in a cultural studies department has been truly pretty shocking. One would think people who work in this area would have a better politic.
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My own psychotic depression was directly related to preferential treatment given to some people in the group I was in. Presumably if I had had the right childhood experiences and did not already have a chronic lower level depression, I would have been able to deal with the very obvious favoritism. If I hadn't idealized the person who was dishing it out, I probably wouldn't have got as sick.
in other departments there was also issues of boundary blurring and senior male staff manipulating females in various ways. Generally in humanities one DOES expect better behavior and encountering it - as well as not recognizing it for what it is - can be crushing.