Edward R Weick wrote:
>
> > Christoph Reuss:
>
> > You still didn't "get it". Addressing/removing the causes would *really*
> > give them back their lives (and if removal isn't possible, at least using
> > better approaches like nutrition and excertion). Filling them up with
> > drugs which at best mitigate the symptoms for a while, and at worst turn
> > depressed persons into mad killer-machines (as in Littleton etc.),
> > isn't a good solution at all.
>
> This assumes that we know what the "causes" are. I know people who are well
> off, productive and have no cause to get depressed, but they still do.
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There probably are some persons who get depressed due to
unmotivated biological problems.
However! The childrearing through which most of us came to
be who we are has largely made us blind to many very good
reasons for being depressed. We may not be focally
aware that anything is wrong, and we may not have any words
to "pin a label on it" (due to not having been given the
words in our "socialization"), but a vague floating malaise may
nonetheless "background" our insertion in life.
Read Alice Miller's _The Drama of the Gifted Child_,
_Thou Shalt Not Be Aware_, _For Your Own Good_,
Lloyd de Mause's _The History of Childhood_, or
Frederick LeBoyer's _Birth Without Violence_. These
books have been real *eye openers* to many persons.
I can only offer the personal testimonial that even
a "summa cum laude" "education" from Yale University did
not give *me* a handle on these things.
+\brad mccormick
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