"an inability to initiate needed work. This plagued me in college, of course, and I didn't understand the mechanism, so berated myself for laziness and lack of discipline."
Via a link from a reposted thread on depression and love at BitchPhD.
Posted by binky at April 16, 2006 09:50 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Health | The AcademyThat's rhetorical, right? I mean you know the answer in my case. :)
Posted by: Armand at April 16, 2006 10:15 AM | PERMALINKI know. And it's not the first time the question of "do depressives become academics or does academia induce depression" has come up. It just struck a chord this morning.
Posted by: binky at April 16, 2006 10:18 AM | PERMALINKAcademics generally? Or social scientists in particular? If you're talking about the latter I can see the causal chain running in both directions. But academics more broadly defined (say people with advanced degrees in horticulture) - I don't know that I see that as clearly. But maybe.
Posted by: Armand at April 16, 2006 10:36 AM | PERMALINK