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Besides the fact that my point was generic to depression and not his type of depression let me clarify and say that I don't think he had 'chemical' depression.

If you check when he started having depression and what he was reading at the time and how this depression developed you see it has to do with the way the system works, which eventually killed him.

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If you check when he started having depression and what he was reading at the time

Are you referring specifically to the JSTOR/MIT case, or to something else further back? If it's the latter, can you give a reference?

If it's the former, you are aware, aren't you, that Swartz was on record years before the JSTOR/MIT case describing his depression?

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/verysick

His description here sounds like the classic symptoms of chemical depression. Which is not to say, once again, that there weren't also other factors involved in the JSTOR/MIT case.

Sorry I wasn't aware, I've read a quite a bit about Aaron but didn't come across this. I didn't imagine actual physical pains either. It must be terrible.

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