![]() ![]() Like many psychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia, the ratio between biological determinants and psychodynamic ones has never been firmly established, but depression is still often viewed as a failure of will, a spineless inability to stand up to life. Since time immemorial, clinical depression-the kind that sometimes ends in suicide-has not been given its due as a legitimate ailment, with claims on our attention and concern every bit as much as cancer. If depression were an actor in a play, it would be one without words, its presence a reminder that psychic darkness isn’t invisible so much as carelessly-or, as it may be, willfully-overlooked. DEPRESSION, FOR ALL THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT IT, remains in many ways a voiceless illness. ![]()
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