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The game tells the story of a person suffering from depression and their attempts to deal with their condition. It was created to foster a greater understanding of depression. [2] Depression Quest can be played for free, and has a pay-what-you-want pricing model. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline receives part of the proceeds.
The term depression was derived from the Latin verb deprimere, "to press down". [12] From the 14th century, "to depress" meant to subjugate or to bring down in spirits. It was used in 1665 in English author Richard Baker's Chronicle to refer to someone having "a great depression of spirit", and by English author Samuel Johnson in a similar ...
Robert Stevenson was born in Glasgow. [3] His father was Alan Stevenson, a partner in a West Indies sugar trading house in the city. Alan died of an epidemic fever on the island of St. Christopher in the West Indies on 26 May 1774, a few days before Robert's second birthday.
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Stevenson at age 7 Stevenson at age 14 Stevenson at age 30 In September 1857, when he was six years old, Stevenson went to Mr Henderson's School in India Street, Edinburgh, but because of poor health stayed only a few weeks and did not return until October 1859, aged eight.
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In 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson was advised by Dr. George Balfour (Stevenson’s uncle and doctor) to travel to the American Rocky Mountains for his health. [13] Stevenson, an invalid, suffered from a myriad of health conditions, and the prevailing thought at the time was that clean air was beneficial to victims of Tuberculosis, like Stevenson was presumed to be. [14]