A friend suggested that those who are depressed need to "pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and get on with living." I reminded him that true depression is a medical illness and that he would not have the same sage advice for a loved-one with cancer. I believe the vegetative symptoms of depression make it quite easy to stigmatize a medical condition as an issue of motivation & character. Oh well, a construct we can't escape from...especially since the mainstreaming, watering-down process of mental illness.
Slow day in my relative wilderness today...a mallard hen with a few of her (growing) goslings!
Up the Irons! SGS! & Carry on....
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