Video: Connecticut Forum: Why We Can’t Talk About Depression

Andrew Solomon discusses the varying levels of understanding and severity of depression, and the dilemma created by the English language’s imprecise emotional terminology. This video is excerpted from The Connecticut Forum’s panel, An Honest Look at Mental Illness, featuring Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, Dr. Hank Schwartz, and NPR’s John Dankosky, in Hartford, Connecticut, March 7, 2014.