Depression. Its that disorder that has become seemingly fashionable amongst celebrities, up there with exhaustion. Because to put the label of depressed on oneself is to excuse not wanting to get out of bed in the morning as something chemically based and therefore unavoidable. At the slightest hint of a struggle in life, Im depressed is a license to reach for the Prozac and all is rosy once again.
But the haphazard way in which many practitioners are all too quick to write someone off as depressed has left the disorder, which in its pure clinical sense is debilitating and soul-destroying, somewhat ridiculed such that Im depressed will be received by most with Yeah, yeah; go take your happy pills then.
But one might ask, are the 14.8 million American adults diagnosed as depressed all genuine cases? Is it possible that such a colossal number of people can be feeling so hopeless?
With ever rising figures on the number of people diagnosed with depression each year, it seems that perhaps events in the world itself are having an effect on our biology. Cognitive behavioural therapy used to be heralded as an effective form of treatment for depression; changing the...
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