Depressed? It might be political!

"A drug that masks the symptoms of a response to a fucked-up world or a fucked-up life doesn't tell me anything. I want to hear about the people like me who've decided not to take drugs"

"I really want to say something about that state that satisfies me in a way that all those bestsellers doesn't because they make depression seem so clinical, so extreme, so pathological, so alien. Why do these accounts not call my name? What name am I trying to call?"

Ann Cvetkovich: Depression. A public feeling