Grief is not Depression …

Many writers say thatdepression is like grief, but deeper, longer, worse somehow. “Depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance,” says National Book Award winner, Andrew Solomon in Noonday Demon: an Atlas of Depression. I’ve always doubted that somehow. I think of grief as a response to loss. There is an identifiable cause. There are stages – thank you Elisabeth Kubler-Ross – even if they aren’t linear. There is something that causes sadness.

Don’t get me wrong. Grief sucks. Grief is...