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Christian Andersen, Author of famous fairy tales
Emily Dickenson, Well known poet.
Geoffrey Hill, POet and playwrite
Robert Burton
Mark twain...duh. |
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| ISAAC NEWTON. ISAAC NEWTON SUFFERED FROM MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER. You know how much that man discovered? |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Melancholy |
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/does-depression-help-us-think-better/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734449/
http://brainimaging.waisman.wisc.edu/~perlman/papers/Self/WatkinsTeasdaleAdaptiveMalSelfFocusDepression2004.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28depression-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |
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| depressed patients approximated the optimal strategy much more closely than non-depressed participants did |
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Both rumination and inadequate concentration seem to characterize depression
Depression can both enhance analytical reasoning as well as undermine cognitive performance
The various procedures to endure states of depression or dejection--as well as preexisting depression--can either enhance or disrupt accuracy on cognitive tasks
Antidepressants enhance performance in individuals who are depressed but impede performance in individuals who are not depressed
In contrast to momentary disruptions of rumination, more enduring disruptions to rumination often prolong depressive episodes |
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| Depression as an adaptation |
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| But the brain plays crucial roles in promoting survival and reproduction, so the pressures of evolution should have left our brains resistant to such high rates of malfunction. Mental disorders should generally be rare — why isn’t depression? |
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| The Victorians had many names for depression |
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| “The ‘race is for the strong,’ ” Darwin wrote. “I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in Science.” |
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| Depression is everywhere...Oops or yay? |
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| Instead, the paradox of depression has long been its prevalence. While most mental illnesses are extremely rare — schizophrenia, for example, is seen in less than 1 percent of the population — depression is everywhere, |
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| Counterfactual thinking is a term of psychology that describes the tendency people have to imagine alternatives to reality |
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| Depressions unnintentional effects |
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| Depressed people are often concerned and ruminate about these problems, which they perceive to be complex, severe, and difficult to solve |
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Oscar wilde
edgar allen poe |
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