This is the title of a
column in the NYT by two high-school students who edit their school’s newspaper.
They argue that depression should be completely destigmatized, so teenagers
could freely discuss it as a serious health issue. Good point – which could be
taken a step further by saying that perhaps it is the cheerfully adjusted to a depressing
educational system (and larger social “matrix”) who should feel some shame. A few psychoanalysts made a similar argument back in the 1960s, but – as we now all know – that was an intellectual and therapeutic dead end.
