ThatsWhatHeSaid
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Bear with me. (rawr)
I'm not sure if if the depression causes and intuition, or the other way around, but I'm going to posit that depression can, and perhaps often does, develop the intuitive function. The mechanism would be something like this:
Depression takes over
The depression increases a person's tendency to ruminate, but also reflect on things
Reflection is an intrinsically intuitive exercise, where normal labels and definitions of things are dissolved
Depression urges people to dig deeper into people's motivations and pain
Exploration like that is often an intuitive exercise
Intuition is developed in conjunction with depression
I'm not sure if if the depression causes and intuition, or the other way around, but I'm going to posit that depression can, and perhaps often does, develop the intuitive function. The mechanism would be something like this:
Depression takes over
The depression increases a person's tendency to ruminate, but also reflect on things
Reflection is an intrinsically intuitive exercise, where normal labels and definitions of things are dissolved
Depression urges people to dig deeper into people's motivations and pain
Exploration like that is often an intuitive exercise
Intuition is developed in conjunction with depression