[At _War_With_Liberals]

"And yet, it's at Christmastime when so many people are most depressed."

No. Feeling down and true depression are 2 different things. For the depressed, every minute of every day is the same, and there are heavy physical symptoms that are unavoidable and are unfortunately debilitating, leading to further despair.

Real depression has a huge physical element.

Re" wallowing- wallowing in bad thoughts is a personality problem, and is not depression. When someone becomes debilitated, there IS a mourning period. But intelligent people realize what is happening and stop this.

And, contrary to myth, no matter how positive, or how psyched up, or how motivated, or how organized, or how enlightened, the physically debilitating symptoms will not improve. Attitude, outlook and complete realization of the person's situation and the required remedies are helpful, BUT DO NOT CURE MAJOR DEPRESSION. For many, the myriad of 'miracle feel good' drugs do absolutely nothing.

[cyborg]

Situational depression is probably what is going on at christmastime. Severe clinical depression is something else.

Interesting take.