<story><title>Aaron Swartz on illness and depression</title><url>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/verysick</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>plg</author><text>A really good talk on Major Depression, what it is (a terrible, paralyzing biological attack on the mind) and what it is not:&lt;p&gt;Robert Sapolsky (Stanford) : &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Aaron Swartz on illness and depression</title><url>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/verysick</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>For those who have experience with dealing with depression, what are your thoughts on how suicides like Aaron&apos;s can be prevented? He seems like a particularly unusual case, just because he had so many outlets and was so well accomplished. I know that depression is very much related to physiological factors, but some of those factors can be mitigated by behavior, and Aaron had all the opportunities to at least distract his mind. Even the DOJ case can&apos;t be considered a direct factor...such David vs Goliath cases spark people and give them purpose, or at least a schedule of milestones to reach, which are at least given meaning when activism is involved.&lt;p&gt;Beyond the tragedy of Aaron&apos;s death, it strikes me how difficult it must be to treat such depression if it wasn&apos;t effectively treated in his case...</text></comment>