Tangled Mind

For various reasons (some personal, others not) I have been thinking about pain. And thinking how illogical some of my reactions to pain actually are.

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A friend wished me luck with getting the medical profession to view stress and depression as two different things. Though I used to encounter the view that they're exactly the same, I haven't met it for a while. And personal experience, plus Thinking About It, leans strongly towards a distinction: for me, stress is much more about reaction to external events and depression is either from brooding or .. well, like the sudden squalls we're getting, random and unattributable.

What do you think?

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I deliberately haven't specified the medium of the review -- could be LJ, printed magazine, respectable website, misspelt rants in 'customer reviews' section of Amazon. Does that make a difference to you? Should it?