Depression

Please see below selected recent depression-related change.

See also: Halcyon Depression Headlines

August 2018

• The growing rates of depression worldwide mean that we are struggling to be happy. Are we doing something wrong, asked Aeon, before adding that painful times can confer other benefits that make us happier over the long term. For example, it is during adversity that we connect most closely with people. Experiencing adversity also builds resilience.

July 2018

Of Mice and Men - redux?  Chastening and often stunning images of the impact that global recession can have in our day and age might suggest so, yet the blooming sunflower might suggest too that hope springs eternal or, as Roy Harper puts it so lyrically, "through all destruction flies new dawn".

Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly?

Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to differ, seeing a web of random acts of kindness,

Meanwhile, initiatives like Global Giving also tell a more positive story.

The ‘disease to please’ is apparently a dangerous condition that can lead to terrible suffering and even suicide, claimed a leading commentator.