Most depressives are, in fact, "closet clinical depressives". One's public face is the last one to deteriorate, and it deteriorates when one is in a sufficiently bad state as to make a well-planned and -executed suicide rather difficult to accomplish.
This bears discussion in two different themes.
First, why is the public/work face the last to deteriorate, while the one shown to one's loved ones is the first? Do we tend to self-identify as an economic consumer/producer?
Second, it's an interesting conflict to the prejudice against the mentally ill, that being that they're expensive and unproductive. Although I do have a further question on productivity.
I am rather interested in the cognitive effects of depression - rather like a can of syrup poured over one's mind, as Carrol said. I do wonder whether this has a significant effect on self-correction and hence on workplace competence. Does anyone have any information in this respect?
Marco
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