I was diagnosed with Depression when I was a Junior in college. However, I had known that I needed to seek out help as early as High School but I avoided seeing a therapist or getting prescribed medication because of my family's "suck it up" mentality that I had grown up with. I knew that my parents would never be able to accept me taking medication for depression because they did not (and still do not) see it as a real disease. That being said I find this article from the New York Times incredibly frustrating. While I commend these scientists for working on a problem that truly does need to be focused on and their creativity in thinking about a problem from another angle the idea that depression is a GOOD thing and that people with depression should be happy because its an adaptation to make them live better lives is simply ridiculous. Depression is a disease that KILLS people. If that is a diagnosis of an adaptation then isn't Cancer also an ...