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演讲简介：
抑郁的反面不是快乐, 而是活力. 而抑郁的时候, 我们变得死气沉沉. 在这次深刻而颠覆性地演讲中, 作家安德鲁·所罗门将我们带入了与抑郁抗争的那段日子中, 他思想中最深谙的角落. 抑郁的经历让他开始环游世界寻找并采访其他的抑郁症患者——结果他发现, 随着他演讲次数的增多, 越来越多的人开始跟他分享自己的故事。
adj. 实验(性)的，试验(性)的
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- I was struck by the fact that depression
- 我很不能理解为什么
- is broadly perceived to be a modern, Western, middle-class thing,
- 人们普遍的把抑郁症看成是现代西方中产阶级特有的一种病
- and I went to look at how it operated in a variety of other contexts,
- 于是我开始寻找抑郁症与其它社会因素的关联
- and one of the things I was most interested in was depression among the indigent.
- 在可能相关的社会因素中，我对贫困和抑郁的关系特别感兴趣
- And so I went out to try to look at what was being done for poor people with depression.
- 于是我做了一些研究，尝试去了解穷人是如何治疗抑郁的
- And what I discovered is that poor people are mostly not being treated for depression.
- 我发现大多数情况下，穷人的抑郁症不会得到治疗
- Depression is the result of a genetic vulnerability,
- 抑郁属于基因的缺陷
- which is presumably evenly distributed in the population,
- 这意味着在不同的人群中容易抑郁的人的比例应该是一样的
- and triggering circumstances,
- 生活环境的不同导致了发病率的不同
- which are likely to be more severe for people who are impoverished.
- 而当人们处于贫困的生活环境中时，抑郁症的发病率更高，也更严重
- And yet it turns out that if you have a really lovely life but feel miserable all the time,
- 但是，如果你的生活一帆风顺，然后你觉得自己一直都不开心
- you think, "Why do I feel like this? I must have depression."
- 你会反思, "我为什么不开心? 我一定是抑郁了."
- And you set out to find treatment for it.
- 然后你会去找医生给你治疗
- But if you have a perfectly awful life, and you feel miserable all the time,
- 但是如果你的生活本来就很糟糕，然后你一直都不开心
- the way you feel is commensurate with your life,
- 你的感觉和你的生活状态是相称的
- and it doesn't occur to you to think, "Maybe this is treatable."
- 于是你就不会想到这个是病，"或许这个可以治疗一下"
- And so we have an epidemic in this country of depression among impoverished people
- 所以实际上我们这个国家的低收入人群中，抑郁症像是传染病一样流行
- that's not being picked up and that's not being treated
- 但是却一直没有被人注意过，没有人评估过患病的规模
- and that's not being addressed, and it's a tragedy of a grand order.
- 也没有人为这些低收入者提供治疗，这是非常大的一个悲剧
- And so I found an academic who was doing a research project in slums outside of D.C.,
- 后来我发现了一位研究人员，她当时正在华盛顿特区周边的贫民窟中做与之相关的一项研究
- where she picked up women who had come in for other health problems and diagnosed them with depression,
- 当有妇女前来看其它的疾病时,她会邀请这些妇女做一个抑郁症的诊断
- and then provided six months of the experimental protocol.
- 同时提供一份六个月的实验协议
- One of them, Lolly, came in, and this is what she said the day she came in.
- 其中有一位女士，名叫洛莉，以下是她第一天到诊所来的自述
- She said, and she was a woman, by the way, who had seven children.
- 她说她是一位母亲，7个孩子的母亲,
- She said, "I used to have a job but I had to give it up because I couldn't go out of the house.
- 她说，"我曾经有一份工作, 但是不得不辞掉了，因为我无法离开我的屋子。"
- I have nothing to say to my children.
- 我一句话都不想跟我的孩子们说
- In the morning, I can't wait for them to leave,
- 早晨，我迫不及待的让孩子们出门上学
- and then I climb in bed and pull the covers over my head,
- 然后立刻爬上床蒙头大睡
- and three o'clock when they come home, it just comes so fast."
- 然后下午三点他们就陆续回家了，时间过得太快了
- She said, "I've been taking a lot of Tylenol, anything I can take so that I can sleep more.
- 她说, "我已经吃了很多的泰诺(一种止痛药)，以及其它所有能够让我多睡一会儿的东西
- My husband has been telling me I'm stupid, I'm ugly. I wish I could stop the pain."
- 我的丈夫一直说我蠢，说我令人讨厌，我真希望能够结束这痛苦
- Well, she was brought into this experimental protocol,
- 然后她接受了实验协议开始进行治疗
- and when I interviewed her six months later,
- 六个月之后当我去采访她的时候
- she had taken a job working in childcare for the U.S. Navy,
- 她有了一份新工作，在美国海军(的幼儿园)照看孩子,
- she had left the abusive husband, and she said to me,
- 她离开了以前那个虐待她的丈夫，她对我说
- "My kids are so much happier now."
- 我的孩子们现在比以前开心多了
- She said, "There's one room in my new place for the boys and one room for the girls,
- 她说，现在我的新家有两个孩子的卧室，男孩子们一间，女孩子们一间
- but at night, they're just all up on my bed,
- 到了晚上的时候，他们都会来到我的房间
- and we're doing homework all together and everything.
- 我们一直做家庭作业，做其它的事情
- One of them wants to be a preacher, one of them wants to be a firefighter,
- 一个儿子立志做一名牧师，另一个想要做消防队员
- and one of the girls says she's going to be a lawyer.
- 我的一个女儿想要做一名律师
- They don't cry like they used to, and they don't fight like they did.
- 他们不像以前那样哭得那么频繁，也不再像以前那样相互打来打去了
- That's all I need now is my kids.
- 看着这些孩子，我现在觉得很满足
- Things keep on changing, the way I dress, the way I feel, the way I act.
- 一切都在不断的变好，我的穿着，我的情绪，我的言行
- I can go outside not being afraid anymore,
- 我不会再像以前那样害怕出门
- and I don't think those bad feelings are coming back,
- 也不会再担心糟糕的心情会卷土重来
- and if it weren't for Dr. Miranda and that,
- 如果没有米兰达医生(那位研究人员)的帮助
- I would still be at home with the covers pulled over my head, if I were still alive at all.
- 我现在可能还我在家里，用被子蒙住头呼呼大睡，或许我已经死了
- I asked the Lord to send me an angel, and he heard my prayers."
- 我曾祈祷上帝为我下凡一位天使，而上帝听到了我的声音."
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| experimental | [iks.peri'mentl] | |||
| vulnerability | [.vʌlnərə'biliti] | |||
| commensurate | [kə'menʃərit] | 联想记忆 | ||
| miserable | ['mizərəbl] | |||
| genetic | [dʒi'netik] | 联想记忆 | ||
| academic | [.ækə'demik] | |||
| population | [.pɔpju'leiʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| protocol | ['prəutəkɔl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| epidemic | [.epi'demik] | 联想记忆 | ||
| depression | [di'preʃən] | 联想记忆 |
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