La Vieillesse est un Naufrage

Allan Milne Lees
Nov 3 · 5 min read

But despair isn’t mandatory

Recently I’ve been thinking quite a lot about depression and about Chateaubriand’s statement that forms the title of this article, though I think it can apply to all of one’s life rather than simply to old age.

There are at least two basic types of depression, though each can be sub-divided into many additional variants:

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Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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