Feelings of depression and frustration can be the result of too much stress, perceived or real, mixed with a lack of appreciation for the positive affects of stress, even if its a blip of obtuseness from a subject who otherwise is known for their objective outlook on life.
Feelings of synthetic elation and exuberance or even hubris can be indicators of a lack of reasonable amounts of stress (self-imposed or instructed) and again obtuseness. These feelings can be magnified if the individual has a long history of mood swings, as the subject may justify riding self-inflated importance to an unhealthy degree with the rational that it is reasonable compensation for all the times of depressed feelings.
The underlying issue with both feelings is not that they are unstable, but the unhealthy infatuation with feeling in general. The subject's concentration is apportioned on the effects stress has on his gauging mechanisms of subjective feeling and not on the verifiably positive results stress can have on any individual, i.e. running releases endorphins and improves cardiovascular health, puzzles exercise real-life problem solving abilities, etc.
On a tangent:
I have no qualms about using myself as a subject in my own controlled or uncontrolled experiments and observations. I get to choose my battles and I rather pick my own brain than allow others to do it for me. In addition, I don't believe humans should be subjected to the same tests and experiments that insentient animals are. Allowing ignorance to continue to hinder the development of intelligence for any reason is a travesty to human evolution as a sentient species and reminiscent of the aloof attitude of the Nazi's towards the rest of non-Aryan humanity. I think it violates the highest code of human ethics, which, in case one has forgotten is to treat all people equally; Even if nature has not physically created them biologically equivalent. Nature may reveal many facts and truths, but is far from the ultimate example of ethics.
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