He slumped down and got very depressed. As I entered the store a woman who was also waiting came in with me. She stopped dead still when she noticed that the Krispy Kreme donut case was empty. The customer's countenance fell. Her countenance fell.
Depression is different from sadness.
We know now that depression is to a large extent a matter of brain chemicals, which can be treated. What the rich man in our gospel reading suffered was sadness. I remember when Kate was very young but old enough not to be dragging her blanket around with her anymore, we faced the usual dilemma of what to do. We began by cutting the blanket in half and a week or so later, cutting it in half again. After a few permutations of this, we finally discussed with her how we were going to sew the blanket into a pillow, so that she could always have her blanket safely inside the pillow on her bed.