Thursday, June 23, 2011

Is There Really an Upside to Depression?

In his recent piece for the New York Times Magazine, Jonah Lehrer describes Charles Darwin's debilitating depression, which involved "hysterical crying" and "bitter mortification," and rendered him "not able to do anything one day out of three." Amazingly, Lehrer goes on to argue that the pain evoked by the depression clarified Darwin's thinking, allowed him to concentrate more fully Editorial Controls Editorial Status:  No Status

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Source: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-happiness/201003/is-there-really-upside-depression

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