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Depression: What is it? Why Drug Treatment

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Depressive Illness
  • Post published:2 August 2025
  • Post last modified:14 February 2026

A great deal has been written on the subject of defining the medical illness of depression.  That is not a main theme of this website, nor do I profess to…

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Depression Descriptions in Literature

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Depressive Illness
  • Post published:13 November 2016
  • Post last modified:14 February 2026

Descriptions of depression from literature I particularly recommended (passages from) three books: 1. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison 2. John Stuart Mill,…

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Thinking, Life, Stress and Depression: Pt 1

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Depressive Illness
  • Post published:14 November 2016
  • Post last modified:14 February 2026

The relationship between these domains has been a topic of debate throughout the history of psychiatry. A few words about stress and depressive illness may be helpful.A state of increased…

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Thinking, Life, Stress and Depression: Pt 2

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Depressive Illness
  • Post published:15 November 2016
  • Post last modified:15 February 2026

AnalogiesI have often been told by patients that the analogies I use to explain things are helpful: I will therefore list some of them here. The symptoms of the illness…

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