Sorry this is a bit late and so low in the replies, but I had to say something based on what I read in this particular thread. Let me take a few statements from what was said and comment on them. I really hope you, original poster DSS, can read it.

Michael, what you describe is the old view of depression and no one can blame you for still sustaining it. But we're talking about depressed people, not depressing situations. It IS a disease for many while it's only circumstancial for a lot of others, and that's the difference. In a gross approximation, understand it…

I'd like to thank you all who posted under this thread. Each and every one of you, because I read each post carefully and now I'm in tears for knowing how many people deal with it, and how you deal, and that I'm not alone in this. It's amazing that more people understand.

There is something called double depression. It happens when you are a depressed person already, and then something comes up that would make any "normal" person depressed. While those people, naturally, tend to be down or blue for a while, depressed people dive head first into that spiral you describe. And while they…

"Like a baby in a blender!"… Rest in peace, O Captain, brother in arms.

In the article, yes. I meant in the wormhole above. I had to go the article and check if there was a relation.

Weird… No mention of the ridiculous racewalking we still see to these days?

No, no… Slowly walking down the hall faster than a cannonball.

Perro manteca la araña discoteca!

Ooh! My original comment was oh-so-rude, it got censored. Apparently you can't say she takes off her clothes way too much more than the plot needs and because of that tends to ruin a decent show and call attention to artificial devices and her own ridiculous therapeutic procedure — whatever her body looks like. It was…

Man… meaty and bulky weird nipples and almost no boob whatsoever? Bingo for Dunham. Nude model in an EIGHTEEN-FIFTIES picture? Yatzee for her again, and I'd sure say for her demerit. Oh, but I wasn't necessarily pointing out the ugliness or lack thereof. That's a matter of taste, so it's all good. It was all about her…

Not the ugliest. Just manly boobs. I've had worse myself and hey, here I am telling it to the world.

Calling a cock for someone who's bitchy and accusative.
See what I did there?