How To Cope With Depression

March 19, 2020 Matt

Depression doesn’t have to ruin our lives. The most urgent thing we need to do is understand the ways in which depression is unlike sadness – and why self-understanding is the primary route to a cure.
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“Almost half of us will suffer from depression at some point in our lives, but the condition remains badly misunderstood and therefore often poorly treated. At the heart of our collective difficulty with depression is a confusion about what it actually is – and in particular, how it can be distinguished from a state all of us know very well and with which it is has a distracting number of similarities, namely sadness. It’s because we unwittingly tend to apply to cases of depression a number of assumptions drawn from, and better suited to, an understanding of sadness that we end up suffering far more than we should…”

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