There are two things I have read since last semester that have really caught my interest.
One was a book that a close friend of mine gave to me; it had me rethinking my whole life—in a way. It was called Looking For Alaska. It was the story of three kids living at a boarding school and the crazy things they did. However the whole story is building up to one point, and as soon as it happens the entire story flips—everything changes. It just made me really reconsider every point made in the story and that life is so flexible, anything can happen at anytime. Crazy Stuff, I know!
The second thing was a New Yorker article that my friends dad showed me, in fact I emailed it to you(Randell Scherer). It was called HEAD CASE, Can psychiatry be a science?
I did not end up reading the whole entire article, because I started it at internship and had to keep doing other things. However I read most of it and the authors opinion on depression really stuck to me. I have always believed that the word "depressed" is kind of BS. I always thought it was just somebody slapping a word—and a medical condition—onto a normally feeling that I personally call "sad". Well the author semi-agreed, using many great quotes such as these:
"In most cases, their depression is not a mental illness. It’s a sane response to a crazy world."
"Greenberg basically regards the pathologizing of melancholy and despair, and the invention of pills designed to relieve people of those feelings, as a vast capitalist conspiracy to paste a big smiley face over a world that we have good reason to feel sick about."
These made me really think about depressing and what it means, and what doctors in America are doing to people. I think its all wrong. I've had many great discussions about this subject since I read that article and it seemed to help a lot. So much that after this, I will post the link to it.
New Yorker Article—HEAD CASE
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