Peg Kerr's Journal

I took so long writing my comment, that many others commented ahead... now that I've gone back to read those comments, I'm sincerely shocked. I didn't see the article as a slam against ANYONE with clinical depression at all. Not even a little bit. I saw it straightforward, as an article saying that as a society we've lost the distinction between depression and sadness, particularly when it comes to psychiatry. Being depressed doesn't mean you're just sad and need to cheer up. Likewise, being sad doesn't mean your brain chemistry needs to be 'fixed'. I feel almost at a lost reading the others' comments, because I didn't pick up on those interpretations at all while reading it. I felt like it just briefly gave a few artistic anecdotes, but that wasn't the drive of the article. I didn't feel like the article was conflates depression and sadness, but does just the opposite.