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a liar with your voice, narrating a life it has no clue about
means a persistent state of low mood, hopelessness, and loss of interest that interferes with daily life — clinically, a mental health disorder; more broadly, any deep lowering or hollow.
from From Latin 'deprimere,' to press down (de-, down + premere, to press) — the same 'press' that gives us pressure and express. It first named literal sunken places: a depression in the land, a dip in a surface. The economic 'depression' (a sunk, slumped market) and the emotional one both borrow that image of being weighed flat — a mood, a market, or a hollow in the ground, all pressed down into the same low place.
- Leading cause
- World's top driver of disability, per WHO
- Anti-inflammatory
- Linked to body-wide inflammation, not just brain chemistry
- Slow time
- Sufferers literally perceive time passing more slowly
- Movement helps
- Exercise rivals medication for mild-to-moderate cases
- Old word
- Hippocrates called it melancholia, blamed black bile
great depression — us economic collapse 1929-1939 with unemployment reaching 25%
asian financial crisis — 1997 regional economic depression starting in thailand, spreading across asia