For pregnant women with major depressive disorders, things can get even more difficult.
In short, the survey underscores the mind-set that gives us the current manic-depressive market: Things are on the upswing, but doubt chews at the edge of anyone's plans, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average continues to bounce around.
These stories Bowie tells feel like the missives of a mind circling through a depressive loop: breaking things in a lover's bedroom, romancing a woman who can't love, and sitting in a dark room with the blinds drawn, hoping for a spark of inspiration.
Others find that, along with physical symptoms such as tiredness, their anxiety or depressive rumination increases before things get better.
Don't add to the depressive episode by saying things that might make it worse.
After a few days of virtually complete isolation (always a good thing for a depressive), the time for my assessment came, and I was told that I should go into hospital.
Referring to claims that Greene was manic-depressive, he said, "The bipolar thing I could never understand, because all the years I knew him there was never any swing".
We will talk over the things that increase depressive and anxious feelings while discussing what we can do about them.
A person who is manic depressive, for instance, should avoid things that make them feel worthless or unhappy.
He's a depressive, he says, and describes it as "a chemical thing, a brain thing", a sense of "general dissatisfaction with everything.
