Border narratives: three first-person accounts of depression.

From: Studies in the Literary Imagination | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Stern, Tina | Copyright information

The story of depression is a long and changing one: "It appears that depression has been around as long as man has been capable of self-conscious thought" (Solomon 31). Over the centuries, depression has been variably understood as a result of biological humors, religious or moral failings, existential emptiness, soul-sickness, early loss, unconscious conflicts, distorted thinking, chemical imbalances, genetic predispositions, and more, or as Andrew Solomon states, "the shape and d...

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