“ My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery. ”
Theories without data are like daydreams.
~ Jonathan Rottenberg
Though I learned little in my compromised state, I learned enough to make a decision: I was going to understand how mood could overwhelm. I was going to understand depression or die trying.
Rather than assuming weakness or defectiveness, we should acknowledge that getting through depression requires considerable strength. Rather than assuming permanent debility, we should recognize that some depressions are followed by thriving.
One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.
