Pocko x Dave anderson for the school of life: On feeling depressed
There remains a huge amount of stigma around depression, but if we look at what an average human is up against, feelings of depression are entirely normal, indeed, to be expected. We don’t need to compound our misery through a sense that it’s either unusual or unwarranted. Pocko’s very own Dave Anderson took the rather daunting task of tackling the topic of depression head on in or to create this eye opening to depression and just how much pressure we as humans face.
FURTHER READING: “We’re not talking about the extreme, most paralysing, regions of despair – where external medical help is vital. Our target is rather the times when we feel – as indicated by Henry David Thoreau’s phrase – mired in moods of ‘quiet desperation’: a large, grey hinterland in which beneath an outward surface of endurance, we feel exhausted, close to tears, beyond the sympathetic understanding of others, easily irritated and daunted by the simplest tasks...” You can read more on this and other subjects on The School of Life blog, here: https://goo.gl/6WyB4m