Fear of people who are depressed, you don't have anything against them considering there going through tough times. but you are afraid of them because you fear as because there depressed, it would make you depressed. When you see someone depressed you instantly feel there pain, and don't know how to comfort them because your basically comforting yourself, because your feelings sync with theirs.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)