I was struck by the fact that depression is broadly perceived to be a modern, Western, middle-class thing, and I went to look at how it operated in a variety of other contexts, and one of the things I was most interested in was depression among the indigent.
Fiquei perplexo que a depressão seja amplamente entendida como algo moderno, ocidental, de classe média, e fui ver como ela funciona em vários outros contextos, e algo que me interessou muito foi a depressão entre indigentes.