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In my view there is depression and depression. Some people have good reasons to be depressed and those can be very rational reasons.
by BrokenPipe 14y ago
In my view there is depression and depression.
Some people have good reasons to be depressed and those can be very rational reasons.
- intended 14y agoDepression has a side effect of making normal thinking patterns unusable. You could literally win a lottery, and feel that the world hates you. Your thought process would go - I won a lottery, but I still feel dead inside. Why go on, there isn't anything for live for. I hate to use an example to explain depression, because its always "explainable", but hopefully as a vignette into what every waking moment of life is like for someone with depression, it should serve its purpose. Edit: grammar in last para.
- nsfmc 14y agoJust to be clear, the article is addressing Clinical Depression not just "having the blues" or any other form of day to day depression which most people suffer. If you want a good description of how Clinical Depression varies wildly from 'rational depression,' read the Andrew Solomon's book The Noonday Demon. It's well written and, at least for me, expanded my perspective of how little I understood of severe depression. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noonday_Demon:_An_Atlas_of_Depression http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noonday_Demon:_An_Atlas_of_...