What Is the Problem With Depressed Persons?

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Frord: depression is unconscious, we just can't tell what's going on. The depressed persons just doesn't know themselves what they're sad about. If they don't even know, how are the people around them? He supposed to know. We only wonder why a man has to be ill before he can be accessible to a truth of this kindeis freud has this pessimism about human nature that i really love. She has a kind of clar voyance here. And another piece of clairvoyance that comes right at the end of this scene is when the little kid says, i'm going to stay up and watcht the planet come to day to night d.

David and Tamler sink deeper and deeper into Melancholia, Lars von Trier’s harrowing and stunningly beautiful depiction of depression, anxiety, and a wedding reception that just won’t end. They bring Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia” into the conversation and confront the question: what if the depressed and anxious people are right?

Plus Whoopi, M&Ms, baby brain waves, Rogan – we empty out the opening segment Slack.

Note: We recorded the opening segment before the latest development in the Joe Rogan story, but we briefly address that in the promo segment right after the break.