Depression

"We all get depressed. Bad stuff happens to us. We all get depressed. We feel lousy. We feel withdrawn. We feel sort of the sense of grief and we're not taking much pleasure and we withdrawal …… and then we get better. We cope. We heal. We deal with things in life. What's the deal with you that you can't do that? And there's this lurking sense, given that all of us have periods are being depressed and come out the other end, when you look at people who instead go down and stay down there to this crippling extent, there's always this little voice between the lines there of – come on pull yourself together, we all deal with this sort of thing. I will make the argument throughout here that depression is as real of a biological disorder as is juvenile diabetes and you don't sit down a diabetic and say – oh come on what's with this insulin stuff? Stop babying yourself. Pull it together. And you will see this is just as much of a biological disorder." - Robert Sapolsky