>> Depression is not something with upsides and downsides. > Not sure if this is true. The remarkable film "Melancholia" (Lars von Trier, 2011) was inspired b

>> Depression is not something with upsides and downsides. > Not sure if this is true. The remarkable film "Melancholia" (Lars von Trier, 2011) was inspired by the director's depression, and one particular upside: that when things get bad, like really bad, the depressive can function better than normal folks because the outside now matches their inside. Kirsten Dunst plays a young woman with utterly crippling depression, I've never seen anything like it in real life or on film, like unable to move or eat. But when the Earth is about to be destroyed, she's sanguine, unlike everyone else. Not sure if this is true to life, but it makes some sort of sense.