…depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview.

Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.