Article re: treatment of depression
Feb. 4th, 2008 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrHappiness: 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?
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Date: 2008-02-05 12:48 am (UTC)I'm also reminded of something that happend during my second depression. A friend of mine took me to a doctor, who asked him if I was acting differently. He said, "This isn't David", while I just stood there thinking, "Yes it is. This is what I'm really like deep inside."