Default Depression

It's a stressful world and we can become overwhelmed. But at what point does sadness become depression, and stress an anxiety disorder?<br /><br />In <em>Default Depression</em>, author Anthony Smith examines the medicalisation of common human experience. Regardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illness - commonly clinical depression, Default Depression. This phenomenon has grown to the point that it now pervades