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Depression

Carolyn Hax – CAROLYN HAX – washingtonpost.com
Depression is slippery. It can come from brain chemicals that tell you a perfectly good life is dreary — or it can come from a dreary life that starts to affect your brain chemicals. It can also tell you that it’s your fault you have a dreary life and so distract you from the fact that you might have a treatable illness or a fixable life.

Although I always enjo Carolyn Hax’s column in the Washingotn Post, I don’t usually find anything in it that’s blogworthy. (Though, lately, not much seems blogworthy to me anyway.) This, though, is one of the best descriptions of depression I think I’ve ever read.

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Oh, I should add — in case anyone was concerned — that I’m not depressed. I just know people who get depressed from time to time.