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抑郁症

Depression

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

这就是抑郁症的原因:一个人几乎可以在任何事情上生存,只要她看到末日就在眼前。但抑郁症是如此的潜伏,它每天都在加剧,根本不可能看到它的尽头。雾就像一个没有钥匙的笼子。

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.

有时我觉得我被迫退回到抑郁中去,因为这是我唯一可以向这个世界提出的合理抗议,这个世界说,人们可以随心所欲地来去自如,根本没有什么真正的义务留下。

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

另一件事是,如果你仅仅依靠药物来控制抑郁或焦虑,例如,你没有做任何事情来训练大脑,所以当你停止用药时,你很容易复发,就像你从未服用过药物一样。

Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.

因为现在很难意识到那就是大萧条的结束。突然间,这一切都摆在我面前,我有偿还能力了。我赚了一些钱,我知道下一顿饭从哪里来,我有一双新鞋,就是这样。

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

我认为,大萧条的教训之一——富兰克林•罗斯福也证明了这一点——就是当正统观念失败时,你需要尝试新事物。他非常愿意尝试非正统的方法,当正统的方法已经证明是不够的。

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