Assumptions ....are generalizations of people and/or realties, often just based on a single story we have heard or an experience we've once made. Trachmann and Bluestone define it as follows: Every human society rests on assumptions that, most of the time, are not only unchallenged but not even reflected upon. In other words, in every society there are patterns of thought that most people accept without question as being of the very nature of things. Trachman and Bluestone (2005 ) Just a couple of days ago I read an article about a popular German fitness-influencer on Instagram who suffers from severe depression. He reports that people, including doctors, didn't believe him. They assumed that because he is a muscular. tattooed, sportive, heterosexual cis man, it is unlikely that he meets the criteria of a depressed person. This example illustrates very well how much we actually limit ourselves in in the way we perce...
