A few years ago I went through a bit of a nasty breakup. The person who did the breaking had some problems. After this all went down I was pretty depressed for a while. Afterwards I realized that I had been partially led in this direction by just being around this person and observing this behavior for so long. Some of the (few) people I’ve mentioned this to thought I was nuts, but here it is:
Now what happened to me has a name: Mood Contagion.
Random, I know, but I happened to see this in one of my RSS feeds the other day.
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”