Why politics makes us depressed — and what we can do about it
Democracy Works
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Is There a Weight on Your Shoulders?
There are three different ways of defining depression. The clinical definition is what a lot of people think about when they hear the word and that's major depressive disorder. Then I think there's like a third meaning of the term, which is what I call the affective meaning. And so I think of depression as sort of a feeling of families that capture this sense of having this weight on your shoulders.
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