An editor of my college poetry journal loved this new "depth" poet. He did not realize that I was drowning, and I could barely string words together...
Depression can be termed as an epidemic negative view of the self, the world, and the future, generated by biases in processing the gathered information.
If your child has a desire to play music or is artistic in any way, encourage them. If your friend from work has a weekend gig and invites you, just go.
I tend to live not on the edge, which would sound so much more enticing, but in the heat of my own want. There I am choked by desire and summoned by guilt.