Aaron Swartz on illness and depression
That's so strange. Such a smart person, who been able to figure out the fixed-set-mentality (which has another name - Learned Helplessness) should be aware that all those symptoms are going together in feed-back loops, and that individually crafted cognitive behavior therapy - slow-but-steady, iterative, but radical changes in ones behavior, ones <i>habits</i> is the only way out. He also figured out those fallbacks-to-default-mood, which is, again, a mere habituation. Sadly, being smart is not enough. Self-control and "emotional intelligence" are required.<p>As any bookish kid will eventually realize - no excess of theory could compensate for the lack of practice. This is a very unpleasant realization after half of life was spent reading.