By markchucarroll

Mark is a computer scientist working as a researcher in a corporate lab. His professional interests run towards how to build programming languages and tools that allow groups of people to work together to build large software systems. Read more of his writing at his blog Good Math, Bad Math (http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/)

NO OTHER ILLNESS

I am mentally ill. I have clinical depression. CD is a thoroughly miserable illness. I’m incredibly lucky to live at a time when CD like mine is easily treated by medication. Two pills every morning, and I’m myself again. The point of writing this isn’t to tell the world that I’ve got clinical depression, or to say “Gosh I like my drugs”. The reason that I’m writing this is gripe about how people react when they hear that I take psychiatric medication. For some reason, the fact that my brain has a problem that’s easy to fix using medication is…