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Re:Association between meatless diet and depressive episodes by wyager on Sunday September 25, 2022 @09:42AM (#32971242)
> Worrying too much about the future and the state of the world in general can definitely lead to depression. Ignorance is bliss.

What is your procedure for distinguishing between neuroticism and awareness? Accurately calibrated concern and ignorance?

> I've found esoteric or conspiracy theorist views to be quite common among some vegans and vegetarian

This would lend credence to the "heightened irrational neuroticism" theory.

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Re:Association between meatless diet and depressive episodes by lytefm on Sunday September 25, 2022 @10:19AM (#32971591)
> What is your procedure for distinguishing between neuroticism and awareness? Accurately calibrated concern and ignorance?

I'm not a psychologist, but AFAIK neuroticism is a personality trait. So my hypothesis would be that people for people who score high on that trait and maybe have some other problem in life, diving too deep into what's going wrong in the world could lead to anxiety, helplessness and depression.

And yeah, if such a person then walks into conspiracy theory territory, we'd have "heightened irrational neuroticism".

On the other hand, if someone is mentally stable and well informed, has a positive outlook on the future and adopts a vegan/ vegetarian diet for good reasons, that's great.

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