So true :[ "The world is a little less beautiful today," the Kennedy family statement quoted Hill's 91-year-old grandmother and RFK's widow, Ethel Kennedy, as saying.]
There are many wise books on library shelves on how to deal with mental depression - which luckily I never experienced . I recall William Styron's classic " Darkness Visible " and the more famous " Man's Search for Meaning " and " The Doctor and the Soul " by Nazi concentration camp survivor Dr. Viktor Frankl . Frankl thought that life IN ANY SITUATION could always have a very personal -if not absolute - meaning . Even after the Holocaust " survivor " individuals could believe in a good God.
I don't think mental depression is purely bio-chemical " happening " in the brain as unpredictable as a traffic accident. " The TIMES " contribute to mental depression in young people. OUR Times invite unhealthy self-absorption itself an addiction fed by the Hollywood Culture of Narcissism .
As a young man JFK was too interested in the tumultuous events of the late 1930s with the world on the brink of war to sink into a dark and hopeless depression. The young future president was doing research for his book " Why England Slept ".
Life in ANY society will always be a bitter struggle for existence . That CONSCIOUS struggle is in itself a remedy for " Darkness Visible " mental depression.
Winston Churchill recovered rather completely from mental depression.
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