You would agree that we all should be sensitive. So many people are not. They are completely hard and uncaring. Not you. You feel sometimes that your awareness of another person's suffering is especially keen. You do not just know how the other person feels, you feel it yourself, right inside you. It is not just the suffering of the people around you that distresses you, but the suffering of every person in the world… Being a sensitive person also makes you very vulnerable to the rudeness and bad temper of other people. Some people, hard, uncaring people, are never upset if someone is rude or angry with them. They can just shrug it off. But you cannot. You get hurt, and the hurt stays, and as often as not this makes you feel very depressed… Unfortunately, some people who get depressed argue to themselves that, 'My sensitivity shows that I could be a great artist but my sensitivity makes me too depressed to create.' Thus one can have a sense of being special without having to prove it. It is much better to think of oneself as someone who could have been a great artist if only I was not such a caring person/I had a chance/the world had not been against me, etc, etc, than to have tried and — worse than to have failed — to discover that one was merely ordinary.
Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison (1983)
Use the link below to read the The Real Causes of Depression, an essay by Australian psychologist DOROTHY ROWE in which she argues that depression is not the product of 'a chemical imbalance in the brain' as is widely touted by the medical profession and drug companies — a hypothesis now accepted (though not publicly) by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Institute of Psychiatry:
https://www.dorothyrowe.com.au/articles/item/192-the-real-causes-of-depression-february-2007
https://www.dorothyrowe.com.au/articles/item/192-the-real-causes-of-depression-february-2007
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