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There is something to be said here about the word ‘depression,’ which
has almost entirely eliminated the word and even the concept of
unhappiness from modern life.Of the thousands of patients I have seen,
only two or three have ever claimed to be unhappy: all the rest have said
that they were depressed.This semantic shift is deeply significant, for it
implies that dissatisfaction with life is itself pathological
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has almost entirely eliminated the word and even the concept of
unhappiness from modern life.Of the thousands of patients I have seen,
only two or three have ever claimed to be unhappy: all the rest have said
that they were depressed.This semantic shift is deeply significant, for it
implies that dissatisfaction with life is itself pathological
