"Consider a middle-class individual living in an ‘exurban’ housing tract 100 miles from their workplace. Each day he commute for two hours in each direction, fighting traffic all the way. His job lacks any relevance or meaning to him and is simply done to make money and survive, without any joy or satisfaction. He have little control or agency at work and spend his day performing trivial tasks that do not challenge or engage him. He do not know his neighbors, he is disconnected from nature, and perhaps he have recently gone through a painful divorce.
If this person is experiencing apathy, sadness and a lack of enthusiasm for life, does that mean he is depressed? And even if we do label his condition as ‘depression,’ can we truly understand or treat him successfully without addressing the circumstances (or root causes) of this person’s so-called depression?"
–Chris Kresser
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