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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。
n. 表示，指示，象征
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- I was really moved by these experiences,
- 我被这些真实的故事深深打动了
- and I decided that I wanted to write about them
- 我之前计划只是写一本书来记录
- not only in a book I was working on, but also in an article,
- 但是现在我觉得远远不够，我还要写一篇文章
- and so I got a commission from The New York Times Magazine to write about depression among the indigent.
- 所以我跟纽约时报杂志说好，写一篇有关低收入群里中抑郁症的报告
- And I turned in my story, and my editor called me and said,
- 当我写好之后，我的编辑打电话给我说
- "We really can't publish this."
- 我们真的没办法发表这个
- And I said, "Why not?"
- 然后我问, "为什么?"
- And she said, "It just is too far-fetched.
- 她说, "故事太牵强了"
- These people who are sort of at the very bottom rung of society
- 这些人生活在接近社会底层的地方
- and then they get a few months of treatment and they're virtually ready to run Morgan Stanley?
- 然后他们经过了六个月的治疗，然后他们就可以去管理摩根史坦利了?
- It's just too implausible."
- 太没有说服力了
- She said, I've never even heard of anything like it."
- 她说, "我从来没有听过这样的事情"
- And I said, "The fact that you've never heard of it is an indication that it is news."
- 然后我说, "你从没有听说过"恰恰说明这个是一个'新闻'
- "And you are a news magazine."
- 而且你们是一家新闻媒体啊
- So after a certain amount of negotiation, they agreed to it.
- 来回协商了几次之后，他们同意发表了
- But I think a lot of what they said was connected in some strange way
- 但是他们说的话让我想了很多，他们这种态度跟另外一个观点多少有点关系
- to this distaste that people still have for the idea of treatment,
- 即很多人还是反感抑郁症需要治疗这个观点
- the notion that somehow if we went out and treated a lot of people in indigent communities,
- 好像这就意味着我们会开始大规模的开始治疗低收入者
- that would be an exploitative thing to do, because we would be changing them.
- 这将是一件带有剥削性质的事情，因为我们是在改造他们
- There is this false moral imperative that seems to be all around us
- 看起来我们所有的人都受到一种教条的影响
- that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice,
- 即治疗抑郁的疗法也好,药物也好,都是人造的产物
- and that it's not natural.
- 并不是自然的结果
- And I think that's very misguided.
- 我觉得这完全是使入歧途了
- It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out,
- 虽然人老了掉牙是很自然的时候
- but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.
- 但是这并不影响任何人使用牙膏，至少我的周围没有
- And people then say, "Well, but isn't depression part of what people are supposed to experience?
- 人们可能会接着问, "那么, 抑郁本身不应该是我们注定需要经历的一个过程么
- Didn't we evolve to have depression?
- 难道抑郁不是我们的演化的结果么
- Isn't it part of your personality?"
- 难道这不是你个性的一部分么
- To which I would say, mood is adaptive.
- 对此我的看法是，情绪是有适应性的
- Being able to have sadness and fear and joy and pleasure
- 对于我们而言，能够感受喜怒哀乐
- and all of the other moods that we have, that's incredibly valuable.
- 以及其它丰富的情感意义重大
- And major depression is something that happens when that system gets broken.
- 而当一个人总是抑郁的时候，那一定是他的情绪系统出问题了
- It's maladaptive.
- 不再能够适应环境了
- People will come to me and say,
- 有些人会跟我这样说,
- "I think, though, if I just stick it out for another year, I think I can just get through this."
- "即便如此，我想如果我自己再多熬一年，我就可以走出抑郁了
- And I always say to them, "You may get through it, but you'll never be 37 again.
- 对此我总是这样回答, "或许你能够自己走出来，但是失去的青春你再也找不回了
- Life is short, and that's a whole year you're talking about giving up. Think it through."
- 人生苦短，你现在却在跟我说要浪费一年的时间，你再想想
- It's a strange poverty of the English language, and indeed of many other languages,
- 关于抑郁这种情感，英语中用来形容的词出奇地少，当然别的语言也多不到哪里去
- that we use this same word, depression,
- 我们用'depression'这一个单词
- to describe how a kid feels when it rains on his birthday,
- 即用来描述一个小孩子生日那天下大雨的心情
- and to describe how somebody feels the minute before they commit suicide.
- 也用来描述一个自杀者自杀前一分钟的感觉
- People say to me, "Well, is it continuous with normal sadness?"
- 人们会问, "这是不是就是长时间的悲伤?"
- And I say, in a way it's continuous with normal sadness.
- 某种意义上可以这么理解
- There is a certain amount of continuity,
- 悲伤和抑郁之间有一定的连续性
- but it's the same way there's continuity
- 但是他们之间的连续性就像是
- between having an iron fence outside your house that gets a little rust spot
- 悲伤可以看成是你房子周围的铁栅栏有一点生锈了
- that you have to sand off and do a little repainting,
- 你需要用沙纸打磨一下重新喷漆
- and what happens if you leave the house for 100 years
- 但是如果你的房子100年没有人住了
- and it rusts through until it's only a pile of orange dust.
- 那么铁栅栏会锈蚀到只剩下一堆黄锈
- And it's that orange dust spot, that orange dust problem,
- 悲伤和抑郁的差别就好比生了一点锈和锈蚀到什么都没有了
- that's the one we're setting out to address.
- 后者是我们要解决的问题
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| indication | [.indi'keiʃən] | |||
| certain | ['sə:tn] | |||
| setting | ['setiŋ] | |||
| negotiation | [ni.gəuʃi'eiʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| valuable | ['væljuəbl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| rust | [rʌst] | |||
| rung | ||||
| continuous | [kən'tinjuəs] | 联想记忆 | ||
| evolve | [i'vɔlv] | 联想记忆 | ||
| stick | [stik] |
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