وقتی تصمیم گرفتم بفهمم افسردگی چیست، و با افرادی که آن را تجربه کرده‌اند مصاحبه کنم، متوجه شدم که بعضی‌ها در مرحله‌ای بودند که به نظر افسردگی ملایم بود، که البته به شدت فلجشان کرده بود. 
As I set out to understand depression, and to interview people who had experienced it, I found that there were people who seemed, on the surface, to have what sounded like relatively mild depression who were nonetheless utterly disabled by it. 