Depression
(Muhammad Unza Farooqui, Karachi)
There is something to be said
here about the word depression, which has almost entirely eliminated the word
and even the concept of unhappiness from modern life,” writes Theodore Dalrymple,
a retired doctor, in his essay "The Frivolity of Evil." “Of the thousands of
patients I have seen, only two or three have ever claimed to be unhappy: all the
rest have said that they were depressed. This semantic shift is deeply
significant, for it implies that dissatisfaction with life is itself
pathological, a medical condition, which it is the responsibility of the doctor
to alleviate by medical means.” In fact, such a large portion of the population
now classifies themselves as depressed that it is hard to say whether it can be
called an illness, or even an aberration. “Depression should not be thought of
as a disorder at all.
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