Is Depression the Flaw in Love?

The most fundamental and important capacity we have as human beings is the capacity for love. Part of what gives love its poignancy and its power is the protectiveness that lies within it, which is a protectiveness of holding on. And i think that therefore, the emotional range that includes great sadness and great pain is essential to the kind of love and attachment that we form. It seems to me that the kind of severe depression that we've been talking about represents an over activity of the mood spectrum,. but that without the basic mood spectrum, of which depression is the extreme end, we couldn't have the experience of intimacy....