Unhappy, or Depressed?

Matthew Crawford  has a Ph.D. but repairs motorcyles for a living (and, obviously,  writes). Here's an excerpt from an article of his about medication:

The  semantic shift wherein “unhappiness” is replaced by “depression” has  real consequences: Our self-understanding becomes infected by medical  categories that may not be appropriate, issuing in a kind of moral  inarticulacy. With this comes a different disposition toward one’s own  experience.

Theodore Dalrymple, a former prison psychiatrist in  Britain, suggests that an overly broad concept of depression implies  that dissatisfaction with life is itself pathological, a medical  condition, which it is the responsibility of the doctor to alleviate by  medical means. Everyone has a right to health; depression is unhealthy;  therefore everyone has a right to be happy (the opposite of being  depressed). This idea in turn implies that one’s state of mind, or one’s  mood, is or should be independent of the way that one lives one’s life,  a belief that must deprive human existence of all meaning, radically  disconnecting reward from conduct.

Gotta love a man who quotes Dalrymple.

Crawford has a book out:  Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work