Depression as a message
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007In the article The mind, as it evolves by Julia M. Klein, psychiatrist J. Anderson Thomson Jr. talks about treating an 18-year-old college freshman he describes as “intensely depressed, feeling suicidal and doing self-cutting.”
The article notes, “He decided that her symptoms might be a way of signaling her unhappiness to people close to her. He [...]




