Many mental disorders are oftentimes misrepresented in the media as malicious or as a chosen quirk. Depression happens to be one of those disorders. Depression is misrepresented in the media as just a bad day or when someone is feeling particularly down....

Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which the automatic activation of one sense reliably triggers a perception in another. It results from greater cross-activation between sensory areas in the brain that occurs in most people. While usually separated...