Louis Menand in the latest issue of The New Yorker explains Gary Greenberg's book Manufacturing Depression by writing that for many people, "depression is not a mental illness. It's a sane response to a crazy world."
Menand goes on to write that "Greenberg basically regards the pathologizing of melancholy and despair, and the invention of pills designed to relieve people of those feelings, as a vast capitalist conspiracy to paste a gib smiley face over a world that we have good reason to feel sick about."
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