Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 10:56:33 EST
Subject: Re: Crucial Questions on Life: some sanity



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sigmund 5 observed Amazing post that clarifies what depression is outside of 
academic "productive" work towards tenure!

I'm not wholly clear what he means but academic work towards tenure sure 
feels close to depression 4 me right now ... as do short days in long winters 
in England.
Anthony chided 
>Alev,
>Prozac, and other antidepressant medications, don't cause 'happiness'.  
>They create an absence  of depression.  Depression is not sadness, or 
>grief, or sorrow.  Anti-depressants do not remove sadness or grief or 
>sorrow.
>
True anthony but I didn't claim  it d id I said
 does serotonin=happiness? does unhappiness lead to a 
>serotonin drop or is it caused by it? in relation mind brain delineation. 
not in order to belittle or dismiss the hell of depression. 
>  To get 
>Deluezian for a moment, it's a complete absence of affect, an inability to 
>experience affect.  It's really awful.  It's frightening just how much one 
>doesn't care about one's self.

But your description of depression seems so heartfelt that I'll be list-bitch 
if it cheers you up?

Alev 
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