Talk:Despair
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Redirects to depression (mood)?[edit]
I'm surprised to see this page redirect to depression (mood). Despair isn't the same as depression. Maybe the justification for the redirect is that it's the best target for the topic at present and it redirects to depression (mood) rather than major depressive disorder. Still, depression (mood) says "classified medically as a mental and behavioral disorder" in the lead.[1] To characterize despair that way is like characterizing other normal feelings, such as regular sadness or anger, that way also.
At least this despair page is tagged with the "With possibilities" option and says, "This is a redirect from a title that potentially could be expanded into a new article or other type of associated page such as a new template." GBFEE (talk) 20:45, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
This redirect is made worse by the fact that the desperation disambiguation page lists "despair" as something that "desperation" may refer to. So desperation is equivalent to depression? Strange setup. GBFEE (talk) 20:57, 30 March 2022 (UTC)