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The chemical cure and the psychological cure both have a role to play,
化學治療和心理治療都發揮著重要的作用
and I also figured out that depression was something that was braided so deep into us
我也發現抑郁是這樣一個東西，深深的嵌入在我們的體內
that there was no separating it from our character and personality.
我們無法將它徹底剝離，它已經嵌入到我們的性格和個性中了
I want to say that the treatments we have for depression are appalling.
我想說現在我們所用的治療抑郁癥的方法太可怕了
They're not very effective.
這些方法沒有什么效果
They're extremely costly.
還非常昂貴
They come with innumerable side effects.
并且伴隨著無數的副作用
They're a disaster.
它們簡直就是災難
But I am so grateful that I live now and not 50 years ago,
但我很感激我活在當下而不是50年前
when there would have been almost nothing to be done.
那個時候還不存在有效的方法
I hope that 50 years hence,
我希望50年后
people will hear about my treatments and be appalled that anyone endured such primitive science.
人們聽到我接受的治療方法，會震驚于竟然有人愿意忍受如此原始簡單的科學
Depression is the flaw in love.
抑郁是愛的附屬品
If you were married to someone and thought,
如果你跟一個人結婚了，然后想
"Well, if my wife dies, I'll find another one,"
“好吧，如果我的妻子去世了，我會找一個新的，”
it wouldn't be love as we know it.
那么據我們所知這不叫愛
There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss,
沒有這樣一種愛情可以只感受幸福而不體驗失去
and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.
這種絕望的幽靈會成為親密關系的動力
There are three things people tend to confuse: depression, grief and sadness.
有三種東西是人們容易混淆的：抑郁，悲傷，難過
Grief is explicitly reactive.
悲傷是一種明確的反應
If you have a loss and you feel incredibly unhappy,
如果你遭遇了不幸并感到極度不快樂
and then, six months later, you are still deeply sad, but you're functioning a little better,
緊接著六個月以后，你還是非常難過，但是生活大致正常了
it's probably grief, and it will probably ultimately resolve itself in some measure.
這很有可能是悲傷，而且它很有可能在最終一定程度地自我恢復
If you experience a catastrophic loss, and you feel terrible,
如果你經歷了一次災難性的打擊，然后感覺非常糟糕
and six months later you can barely function at all,
并且六個月之后你依然無法正常生活
then it's probably a depression that was triggered by the catastrophic circumstances.
那么很有可能就是你的抑郁被這種災難性的情形觸發了
The trajectory tells us a great deal.
這中變化的過程告訴我們很多信息
People think of depression as being just sadness.
人們往往認為抑郁只是難過而已
It's much, much too much sadness,
只是太多太多的難過
much too much grief at far too slight a cause.
太多的悲傷起因卻微不足道
As I set out to understand depression,
當我開始著手了解抑郁
and to interview people who had experienced it,
并且采訪那些有過這樣經歷的人時
I found that there were people who seemed
我發現有些人
on the surface to have what sounded like relatively mild depression
從表面上看來好像是比較輕微的抑郁
who were nonetheless utterly disabled by it.
卻已經因此徹底喪失行為能力了
And there were other people who had what sounded
另一些人
as they described it like terribly severe depression
從他們的描述中得知他們經歷了非常嚴重的抑郁
who nonetheless had good lives in the interstices between their depressive episodes.
他們卻能夠在抑郁發作的間隙過著不錯的生活
And I set out to find out what it is
于是我開始研究
that causes some people to be more resilient than other people.
到底是什么使一些人比另一些人能更好地適應
What are the mechanisms that allow people to survive?
是什么樣的機制讓這些人能夠幸免？
