Woolie
Senior Member
The depression you have when you're not feeling depressed!….it is a great way for not seeing oneself as mentally ill, and not seeing oneself as responsible for the life predicament which one happens to be in.....It is this blame avoiding function of somatisation that seems to us to be its key feature, and perhaps explains why patients do not report such great levels of depression (page 142)
To me, severe depression (major depressive disorder) is the worst thing in the world to have, so this would seem to me to be a rather good strategy, and we should learn how to encourage more MDD people to learn the technique.