Stone: New movie challenged my perception of depression

Actress Sharon Stone found playing a depressed woman in new movie When a Man Falls in the Forest "a watershed experience", because it challenged the way she thinks about clinical depression.

The 48-year-old plays a middle-aged lady who takes up shoplifting as a result of feeling isolated.

Speaking at the Berlin Film Festival today, Stone said: "Everybody goes through times in their lives when they feel like they're disappearing, when they feel like no one is seeing them or hearing them. I certainly think that it's prevalent in middle age.

"(Making the film) was a watershed experience. I think that we live in a Prozac society where we're always told we're supposed to have this kind of equilibrium of emotion.

"We have all these assignments about how we're supposed to feel about something."