Physician John Rush spoke in an interview about the stain of “unmanliness” attached to the condition and its possible consequences: [Depression] doesn’t mean I’m weak, it doesn’t mean I’m incurable, it doesn’t mean I’m insane. It means I’ve got a disease and somebody better treat it. One of my friends says, “Depression? Hell, boy, that’s wimp disease.” Wimp disease? Oh, yeah, it’s wimp disease. And I guess the ultimate wimp kills himself.
