Tag Archives: psychological depression

What’s Wrong with us? Some theories [September 2010 / CCT]

You hear it a lot these days: What’s wrong with us? with our country, with us as a people? There’s this sense that we ain’t the country we used to be. We’ve lost our mojo. Maureen Dowd in a recent column: “The country is having some weird mass nervous breakdown.” This malaise has been exacerbated […]

December 1, 2011 – 1:45 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

How happy should we be? [July 2008 / CCT]

A couple of weeks back a story about a survey of depression on Cape Cod was featured prominently in these pages. (“Depression: Study gauges the Cape blues.”) The sampling was convincingly large, 15,302 local people. Of these 43% “showed signs of depression,” almost twice the national average. Almost half of us depressed. That’s depressing news […]

November 30, 2011 – 1:14 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)