The goal in treating depression is to move a sufferer from feeling limitlessly despairing to mourning the loss of something in particular: the last twenty years, a marriage, a hope one would be loved by one's father, a career...
治疗抑郁症的目的是让抑郁症患者从无边的绝望中走出来,为某个具体的事物哀悼:过去的二十年,一场婚姻,一种对父爱的渴望,一份事业。