Sublime

This test, called the CES–D (Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression), covers all the symptoms of depression.

We are genetically programmed to react to stimuli in our immediate vicinity. Responding to complex issues that we cannot perceive directly requires the application of reasoning, which is less powerful than instinct.

Each of them was driven by unconscious demons that masqueraded as reasonable, conscious concerns.

Bipolar Disorder

Psychologists think of ideas as nodes in a vast network, called associative memory, in which each idea is linked to many others. There are different types of links: causes are linked to their effects (virus cold); things to their properties (lime green); things to the categories to which they belong (banana fruit).

The thing to watch for, in my opinion, is what strategy a person employs first when distressed and, if that one fails, what strategy the person switches to next. These are the person’s primary and secondary patterns.

There were two opposing theories of manic-depression illness: The biomedical school held that it was a disease of the body; the alternative was Freud’s notion that depression was anger turned upon the self.

by analogy