profile of ElmoKeep  Against Depression  Duh, that seems
obvious. Then why do we so often see it held up as a helpful
part of human nature and not a debilitating illness?  In the
last few days two very different takes on depression have been
doing the rounds of ye olde Internets, maybe you’ve seen them?
One is a new study published by Yale University which concluded
that depression can have psychical effects on suffers in that it
shrinks their brains. The other is a long essay, In Praise Of
Depression, which posits that depression is a natural part of
life, which should be endured and even celebrated. To my mind,
one of these is a cheering step forward in the treatment of the
illness and the other is a hideously cavalier piece of
misinformation.   There are two completely separate notions at
work here: one is that our society is over-medicated, which is a
truth. The other is that there are some people who need to treat
their chronic, debilitating, life-threatening depression with
drug therapy. These two thing