[Doctor Stochastic]

I've read her stuff on this. It's true that one may feel better by being rational, but people with real problems (chemical lack, like diabetes) just can't do it. There is a difference between having (clinical) depression and having the blues (even delta blues, even if you didn't kill someone in Nashville just to watch him die.)

[PatrickHenry]

Right, that's how I recall it. Rand was talking about someone being all depressed, or being in an emotional panic, as a result of walking around with the wrong psycho-epistemology. (Kinda like the anger and frustration a creationist must experience when walking around in a modern, rational, technological society.)