Why thinking is known to be a slow process??
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people with depression think more slowly than others. For example, in a task where participants were asked to count backwards from one hundred by seven (100, 93, 86, etc.) people with depression were slower in doing so and made more mistakes.
It has also been noted that people with depression have more slowed thinking when dealing with negative emotional stimuli.
Depression may produce even greater slowed thinking in the elderly and in those with more severe depression symptoms or repeated depressive episodes.
Depression and reduced processing speed is even noted in people who are experiencing euthymia (a non-depressed, reasonably positive mood state). Additionally, some studies have noted that late-onset depression (people who experience their first depression in adulthood) may produce more pronounced cognitive processing speed deficits in euthymic patients.
Being fast means working hard and being smart from answering calls around the clock to having the quickest wit at meetings. Slowness is for the lazy, the aloof, . When we talk about slowing down, we usually mean taking it easy, certainly not being more productive.