Consider depression, the most common mental illness, which must be distinguished from the sadness, disappointment, or frustration we all experience in our lives. William Styron’s 1989 memoir, Darkness Visible, rightly calls “depression” a weak word for a debilitating condition that is marked by hopelessness, helplessness, and dread.
比如我们必须把最常见的精神疾病抑郁症与生活中所感受到的悲伤、失望和沮丧区分开来。威廉·斯泰隆在1989年的回忆录看得见的黑暗中恰当地指出“抑郁症”一词根本不足以形容以无望、无助和恐惧为特点的精神疾病。