I wondered this same thing the other day ihn my journal. I am taking meds and getting therapy so I can feel normal - but what is normal? Yes, I know the norm answers, etc. but do we even want to be "normal"? Think of some of the leaders of the world, of your city or county, think of some of the decisions made by powerful people who are supposedly normal - do we want to be like them? Destroying the environment, cutting off benefits to those who can't work, treating those who are different from them as somehow lesser beings - why would I want to be like that? Yes, I would like to not be depressed, not suffer from anxiety and guilt and grief, not to want to die. I would like to learn to want to live - to experience joy and beauty on a daily basis. That is what I would define as normal. I am a person who helps others, who cares about others and about the environment, who feels a sense of spirituality (and sometimes even peace) since I discovered yoga. I would not give up any of those things if in order to be considered normal I would have to be greedy, selfish, rude. Even if the reasons for my being nice lie in the roots of my depression and the lack of nurturing and loving parents growing up (make nice so you won't make "mommie" angry) - I still would not want to change that. I have really rambled here but this is something I have really been thinking about.