All of us experience this in varying degrees at different times, and especially in this hectic age. For the depressed person, however, it goes far beyond the frustration and angst of constantly running late or having too much to do. This realization often gives rise to suicidal thoughts. Curiously, sometimes this realization of power will be enough to help get one through the worst times of depression. Though this is admittedly macabre and still a sign of grave emotional illness, it is for some a way to cope in a provisional manner.
Clinical depression is an illness.
It is not a personal weakness, a sign of spinelessness, a symptom of spiritual fragility or a moral failing. It is an emotional and physical disease that requires therapy and medication just like any other infirmity, and, in some cases, it requires more attention than heart disease or cancer. Unfortunately, like all other diseases, clinical depression is sometimes fatal. This is a grim prospect and not something most like to think about, neither sufferer nor her family and friends, but it is nonetheless true. Sometimes depression has a terminal outcome.