Not the sufferers of clinical depression, but the rest of us. Throughout the Western world we have for years just stood and watched as our best citizens keep getting this horrific illness, offering them only blame, contempt and condescension. We Brits have been the world's worst at this.
If we are to protect our best sons and daughters and through them escape our latter-day tendency to mediocrity, we must start realizing that people who develop depressive illnesses need to be respected and nurtured. They are our doers and shakers; if we fail to recognize this, we will all lose.'
Tim Cantopher, Depressive Illness: The curse of the strong, p.100.
