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Comment on Phenomenological Research on Depression Reveals Depths Beyond Diagnosis by Steve McCrea
['Kevin Gallagher', 'Dr. Kevin Gallagher Is Currently An Adjunct Professor Of Psychology Point Park University', 'In Pittsburgh', 'Pa', 'Focusing On Critical Psychology. Over The Past Decade', 'He Has Worked In Many Different Community Mental', 'Physical Health Settings', 'Including Four Years With The Award-Winning Street Medicine Program', 'Operation Safety Net', 'Supervising The Substance Use Disorder Program At Pittsburgh Mercy. Prior To Completing His Doctorate In Critical Psychology']
Comments for Mad In America
The existential dimension of depression, they found, included the feeling that the world “loses its ‘sense’ and ‘feeling’, and the existing experiences can be described as ‘deprived of meaning’, ‘estranged’, ‘detached’, and ‘alienating’,” which leads to a paradox that participants in past studies described as “a feeling of not feeling.” The social dimension often interacts with the psychological dimension, creating feelings of guilt for missing social interactions, and the “despair over themselves and their social inabilities becomes a negative spiral that keeps people in their depression.