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David Foster Wallace Empowered a Generation to Talk About Mental Health

DFW nailed down our society's mental health stigma problem, and the difficulty of articulating one's own mental anguish.

Today, on World Mental Health Day, everyone should take the time to read David Foster Wallace's "The Depressed Person."Published in Harper's in 1998, "The Depressed Person" is a short story about an unnamed woman with major clinical depression who attempts to dissect ...