Alan: A husband and wife hid the same medication - for the same disease - in different parts of the same bedroom.
Part of depression is to keep the same secret from people who are keeping the same secret.
Sickness is accompanied by shame.
And depressive sickness persuades us that we ourselves are "wrong and bad" whereas schizophrenics know that something extraneous to themselves has gone wrong inside and that it needs to be "exorcised."
Headspace
Some of our most powerful feelings — stress, depression, despair — are the hardest to understand. This hour, TED speakers challenge assumptions about emotion, disquiet and the essence of well-being.
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