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the feeling of being thrown downward by your own brain.
means Feeling low-spirited, downcast, and sad, as if your morale has been cast down.
from From Latin 'deicere,' to throw or cast down — 'de-' (down) plus 'iacere' (to throw), the same 'iacere' lurking in 'eject,' 'reject,' and 'project.' The past participle 'deiectus' literally meant 'thrown down,' and by the time it reached English in the late Middle Ages it had stopped describing physical hurling and started describing the inner kind: spirits flung floorward.
- latin roots
- from dejectus, meaning cast down or thrown below
- posture tell
- shoulders slump before the mind admits defeat
- not depression
- a passing weight, not a permanent residence
- gravity word
- the de- prefix literally means downward motion
for instance
eeyore — a.a. milne's character from winnie the pooh, perpetually gloomy and sad
marvin the paranoid android — douglas adams' character from hitchhiker's guide, famously depressed robot