Eva Meijer

Depression is like mourning, and mourning can cause depression. It’s like grief and fear, too, generic terms for what happens when you lose something, or are afraid of losing something; for when you fall, or have already fallen. But depression is also different: it’s coupled to another kind of loss—the loss of reality. Life-changing events make you see the world differently—when you fall in love, you gain a whole new world; when you lose someone, you lose a

that barrenness isn’t purely bad: it’s also the starting point of freedom

In The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus wonders whether understanding that life is meaningless should necessarily lead to suicide.