Depression is one of the most seriously misunderstood phenomenon dictating human choice.
For the record, I have never been so seriously depressed that I contemplated suicide. I’ve been seriously hurt enough to do so*, and I think there’s a difference, but when you’re in the midst of it I don’t know that it matters.
I have been depressed. I put up with it on a fairly regular basis. But when I say depressed I’m pretty sure it’s not the same thing, by degree or otherwise, as what it means when we talk about clinical depression or organic depression wherein the disorder stems from a physical illness, an injury or disease. …