The Delusion of Depression
Shankar Vedantam challenges the notion that mental illness involves not seeing the world clearly, by exploring how patients with depression can actually see the world more clearly than those who are mentally healthy. He suggests that part of being mentally healthy might involve seeing the world through a delusional sense of optimism, which raises the question of whether seeing reality for what it is might not always be functional.In this clip
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