What I'm about to say isn't to deny that inflammation might trigger or contribute to depression. In fact, anyone who thinks depressed people are just self-indulgent whiners and that there is no biochemical basis for depression are simply living in the 1950s.
My wife has clinical depression. To describe depression, as this article does, as just not wanting to get off the couch is hugely insulting to people with clinical depression.
My wife isn't alone in wishing that there was another word for "depression" of the sort arises because your team lost, your dog died, you got passed over for a promotion. Those are disappointing and can be a problem in the short term.
Clinical depression is not just not wanting to get off the couch. It is a profound loss of hope, and the inability to even connect with your previous mental state of what it was like to have hope or find things interesting. The present appears fucked, and even after racking your brain for some way out, every path looks even more dismal. Situations in the real world are often complicated and can be interpreted in more than one way, but to a depressed person, the most terrible interpretation is evaluated as being a very likely outcome. And, just like 9/11 conspiracy theorists construct self-consistent theories by bending facts and through selective filtering, clinically depressed people often build an elaborate, self-consistent understanding that, yes, they and their future are completely fucked.
My wife has clinical depression. To describe depression, as this article does, as just not wanting to get off the couch is hugely insulting to people with clinical depression.
My wife isn't alone in wishing that there was another word for "depression" of the sort arises because your team lost, your dog died, you got passed over for a promotion. Those are disappointing and can be a problem in the short term.
Clinical depression is not just not wanting to get off the couch. It is a profound loss of hope, and the inability to even connect with your previous mental state of what it was like to have hope or find things interesting. The present appears fucked, and even after racking your brain for some way out, every path looks even more dismal. Situations in the real world are often complicated and can be interpreted in more than one way, but to a depressed person, the most terrible interpretation is evaluated as being a very likely outcome. And, just like 9/11 conspiracy theorists construct self-consistent theories by bending facts and through selective filtering, clinically depressed people often build an elaborate, self-consistent understanding that, yes, they and their future are completely fucked.