{"id":35917,"date":"2016-10-08T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35917"},"modified":"2016-09-29T10:21:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T14:21:53","slug":"qotd-depression-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/10\/08\/qotd-depression-2\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The book [<em>In the Jaws of the Black Dogs<\/em>, (1999)] is a compelling, unpleasant read, valuable because it tells us three things. First, that such depressions do not yield to shrink fixes, and will not otherwise \u201cgo away.\u201d Second, that there is no \u201ctemplate,\u201d for each sufferer is his own constellation of symptoms which no outsider is privileged to explore. And thus, third, the depression can be controlled and mastered, only if one grasps these things. One must, as it were, leash one\u2019s own black dogs, and it will be neither easy nor painless. While perhaps overwritten, the book is admirable for containing no victim\u2019s plaint, no false appeal for applause, and absolutely no pop psychology.<\/p>\n<p>David Warren, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidwarrenonline.com\/2016\/09\/19\/unfinished-conversations\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Unfinished conversations&#8221;, <em>Essays in Idleness<\/em><\/a>, 2016-09-19.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book [In the Jaws of the Black Dogs, (1999)] is a compelling, unpleasant read, valuable because it tells us three things. First, that such depressions do not yield to shrink fixes, and will not otherwise \u201cgo away.\u201d Second, that there is no \u201ctemplate,\u201d for each sufferer is his own constellation of symptoms which no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,66,41],"tags":[141,906,139],"class_list":["post-35917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-health-science","category-quotations","tag-depression","tag-mentalhealth","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9lj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35919,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35917\/revisions\/35919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}