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Article re: treatment of depression
Happiness: Enough Already
The push for ever-greater well-being is facing a backlash, fueled by research on the value of sadness.
I am trying to figure out why this article upsets me so much. I guess because several members of my family (including me) are on medication for mood disorders. I read this as insinuating that perhaps we are just a little too eager to forego a truly authentic life in exchange for a surcease of the pain of depression. Well, actually, the article is talking about the pain of sadness, which it seems to conflate with depression.
Am I over-reacting? Your reactions?
The push for ever-greater well-being is facing a backlash, fueled by research on the value of sadness.
I am trying to figure out why this article upsets me so much. I guess because several members of my family (including me) are on medication for mood disorders. I read this as insinuating that perhaps we are just a little too eager to forego a truly authentic life in exchange for a surcease of the pain of depression. Well, actually, the article is talking about the pain of sadness, which it seems to conflate with depression.
Am I over-reacting? Your reactions?
Re: 95% agreement, but....
I meant to say that possibly the individual people mentioned at the beginning of the article (who were experiencing normal, temporary sadness, if the narrative is to be trusted) perhaps didn't need anti-depressants; and certainly I should have said that other individual people might have perfectly good reasons for eschewing anti-depressants. The success rate of such substances isn't all that high, alas, and I don't think people should be on them who don't want to. But I could tell by the tone of the article that all these anecdotes were going to be pressed into service to prop up a set of the same old invalid arguments.
P.