Just 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.

Just 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_...