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by cmrdporcupine 3358 days ago
You might find this doc series interesting:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/rethinking-depression-part-1-1...

There is some discussion in it about the very historical nature of the concept of depression and how it was not "a thing" even 50-100 years ago.

Without saying depression doesn't exist it does call into question the rather schematic and reductionist description of it that we work with today.