The problem that I have seen with depression is not so much a sense of entitlement to normal feelings, but that of apathy towards the problem. Depression causes you to get into this mindset that if you just bide your time and numb the pain long enough, it will all go away on its own. I think part of that is the helplessness you feel when the depression first starts manifesting itself. It just sort of sneeks up in the there, unnoticed, until one day you look back and realize that you've become a different person. Then you hope it will just exit in the same manner.
The first step to dealing with depression is recognizing that it's going to take work to fix it.
The first step to dealing with depression is recognizing that it's going to take work to fix it.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
