Sublime

Está na moda encarar a depressão como uma queixa moderna, e isso é um erro grosseiro que um exame da história da psiquiatria ajuda a esclarecer. Também está na moda pensar sobre a queixa como algo da classe média e bastante consistente das manifestações da depressão.

When I went through medical school and residency in the 1990s, I was taught that people with depression, anxiety, attention deficit, cognitive distortions, sleep problems, and so on have brains that don’t work the way they’re supposed to, just like people with diabetes have a pancreas that doesn’t secrete enough insulin. My job, according to the th

manifest as social withdrawal, an inability to feel pleasure, or a lack of motivation.

This is the real tragedy of our cultural psychologization of diseases we don’t understand: the ways such dismissals leave patients to suffer alone, their condition turned into a character flaw.

placebo. Resilience to sad thoughts is a sign of strong mental health. For example, in depressed people, a sad stimulus can turn an otherwise spotless sky into an overcast day, whereas someone with a healthy mood can simply observe the sad thought and move on, without significant cloud formation.

“Medicines treat depression,” my therapist said to me. “I treat depressives.”

shrink diagnosed her with emotional detachment disorder, which seemed like a stretch to Greta, who preferred to think of it as “poise” on a bad day, “grace” on a good one, and, when she was feeling full of herself, “serenity.”