[Burn24]

Since last night, I've learned an extraordinary amount about depression. Like you, I'm glad people are talking about it.

Isn't it strange, though? America in 2003 is the best history has to offer in terms of human comfort and happiness, and there is still such widespread pain?

Money, medical progress, all these things don't seem to help. Perhaps we really have fallen into nihilism and spiritual despair, even as we busily Christmas-shop, holiday grins fixed in place.

[Dec31,1999]

Isn't it strange, though? America in 2003 is the best history has to offer in terms of human comfort and happiness, and there is still such widespread pain?

Idle hands are the Devil's work.

[SerpentDove]

>>Perhaps we really have fallen into nihilism and spiritual despair<<

I'm not sure depression is linked necessarily to either of these things. Some of the finest preachers and men of God in history have suffered depression. Charles Haddon Spurgeon immediately comes to mind.