Depression Is Good For You
Go figure. Depression is often a perfectly healthy biological message from your body that means you need re-asses your shitty decisions, not necessarily drown your synapses in serotonin, head back to your cubicle and pretend that you don't hate your husband/wife/orthodontist/vacuum sales job/life.
"A leading psychiatrist says that depression is not a human defect at all, but a defence mechanism that in its mild and moderate forms can force a healthy reassessment of personal circumstances.
Dr Paul Keedwell, an expert on mood disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, argues all people are vulnerable to depression in the face of stress to varying degrees, and always have been.
The fact it has survived so long - and not been eradicated by evolution - indicates it has helped the human race become stronger."