The office depression is so thick and so noisy that someone from another office in the building, seeing a bit of yellow in the gutter, investigates and finds the canary which is restored.
It's true in species recovery, and it's also true in business, where an industry decline or a broad recession doesn't have to mean office depression.
Breaking Point: I was 19 years old, sitting in my doctor's office for depression, on a Tuesday afternoon when I decided I wanted to change my life forever.
If this same patient walked into my office, in contrast, depression would be high on my list.
Between March 1933, when Roosevelt took office during the Depression, and April 1945, when he suddenly died just before the Second World War came to an end, the world was thoroughly transformed.
In the episode, Christmas time at the office leads to depression for Michael, when his girlfriend Carol Steve Carelll's wife, Nancy Walls) breaks up with him.
"After all, George Bush didn't want to leave office with a Depression happening on his watch, so he dressed it up and called it a Recession, which was like so many other funny names the Bush administration gave to things.
As the story goes, the space was fitted as the office of a Depression-era businessman, John W. Campbell, who was known for his taste in Persian rugs and 13th-century Italian furnishings, and for a curious refusal to wear socks.
Long hours in the office lead to anxiety, depression and even nervous breakdown.
The Liberal Federation was considering a merger with the Country Party to avoid Labor retaining office during the Great Depression.
Doubting that Aderonke could undertake LGBT activism when suffering from depression, the Home Office barrister went on, "if she is suicidal and depressed she is making a jolly good show of it".
