The unfortunate reality is that in 2014 we don’t have a good treatment for depression, let alone a solid science-based definition of what we are trying to fix.

The unfortunate reality is that in 2014 we don’t have a good treatment for depression, let alone a solid science-based definition of what we are trying to fix. There are many ways of contextualizing human unease and cognitive discomfort. “Depression” is the current label in a medical context for pervasive unhappiness, yet it’s not one with a clear biological underpinning. To this, I think it can be advantageous to avoid self-identifying as “depressed”, as I suspect it’s not uncommon for many venturing down the psycho-therapudic/pharmalogical wormhole in search of Help to end up endlessly suspended in a search for a ‘cure’ like this author. Another similar account which comes to mind is Daphne Merkins’ “My life in Therapy” which was published in the NYT a few years back: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/magazine/08Psychoanalysis-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/magazine/08Psychoanalysis-...