A Call to Rebellion: A New Story About Depression

In previous generations, depression was likely to result from internal conflicts between what we want to do and what authority figures – parents, teachers, institutions – wish to prevent us from doing. But in our high-performance society, it’s feelings of inadequacy, not conflict, that bring on depression. The pressure to be the best workers, lover

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Everyday life generates feelings of despair and anxiety which become internalized and labeled as depression. In therapy culture, these feelings are traced back to childhood trauma or medicalized as a biochemical disorder located outside the individual’s control. But these frameworks do not account for the socio-political forces of depression, which... See more