DEPRESSION AND ITS BENEFITS

I was listening to a man in a support group talk about depression. He definitely believed he had the perfect answer. I could feel my anger rising to a dangerous level. This idiot said the solution to depression was to pick up the telephone and cheer someone else up. I had a vivid mental picture of putting down a shotgun and picking up the phone. Perhaps I was saving the shotgun for the man with the perfect solution.

I realize most people have suffered from depression at some point in their lives. I would suspect that this level of depression is causal, something unhappy happened in their lives and…