Enron suicide note disclosed

[Carl Remick]

>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>The wildly varying combinations of symptoms shown by victims of
>depression suggest to me that what we call depression is probably a
>classification that mushes fairly distinct disorders together. Sort as
>if all illnesses which produced a fever were considered one illness.

What drives me nuts (figuratively speaking) is the medicalization of all 
sorts of adverse mental states that have a strong political or existential 
component.  After more than a generation of capitalist triumphalism capped 
by the glorious rebirth of outright imperialism, any decent person would 
*have* to be in a foul mood most of the time.  If that person is 
exceptionally sensitive and has a certain biochemical predisposition, he/she 
could well devolve to that near-paralytic state known as clinical 
depression.  But I would argue that the cause of that depressed state is 
capitalistic depredations, not idiopathic serotonin imbalances.

Carl

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