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The earlier depression is diagnosed, the more responsive to treatment it may be [ 34 ] . The most reliable symptoms of major depression in patients with advanced illness are persistent dysphoria, anhedonia, feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and worthlessness, and loss of self-esteem [ 35 ] . The somatic symptoms of depression (such as changes in weight) are unreliable as they may reflect the underlying illness [ 36 ] . The screening question, "Do you feel depressed most of the time?"
It is a myth that persistent feelings of helplessness and hopelessness are inevitable and permanent consequences of advanced life-threatening illness [ 33 ] . Most patients with a serious illness experience periods of intense situational sadness and anxiety accompanied by depressive symptoms.
. which seems to remain impervious to the sources of anxiety, to politics and ideology, to mental or spiritual hopelessness."
Kureishi's hopelessness is the kind that leaves you exhilarated, convinced that even if the characters on screen haven't found a "right" way, the quest for a right way is what keeps them--keeps all of us--alive.
Director Mike Leigh's latest film about working-class Brits "trapped in the hopelessness of modern life" (Richard Schickel, Time ) is rated a notch below his acclaimed Naked and Secrets & Lies . The premise--ex-college roommates spend a weekend together for the first time in six years--is overly "modest" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ): "[N]othing much happens, dramatically speaking," says Schickel.
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