How to recover from depression
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters recommend it as a comprehensive talk on depression, and one says it helped them through a bad period.
What it is
Clinical psychologist Dr Michael Yapko draws on forty years of practice and research to explain skills that help people recover from, and even prevent, depression. He emphasizes cognitive and social factors beyond medication.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2021 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec Panini_Jones · 2023-09 · on “Breaking Through Depression”
For anyone experiencing depression right now, this video helped me immensely at one point in my life [0]. CBT has also changed my life; I highly recommend the book 'Feeling Good'[1]. [0] - [this video] [1] - [LINK]
Recommends antman · 2021-02 · on “How Antidepressants Work, at Last?”
For the cognitive aspect of depression a nice comprehensive and dense video I found is [0], key factors in slide at 24:10 and the reasons for this approach are at a slide at 23:00 including why a medication only approach is intractable in the long term. [0]: [this video]
Recommends CretinDesAlpes · 2021-09 · on “Robert Sapolsky on Depression (2009)”
This 2018 talk from Dr Yapko, "Keys to unlock depression: Why skills work better than pills" - [this video] - suggests a multidimensional viewpoint rather than purely biological. He says the causes are: 1. Biological. He says "Yes, biology matters, but surprisingly not as much as you would think, that when we look at what’s termed genetic variance, how much do genes play a role in depression? Is there a depression gene? No. Are there genes that make people vulnerable to depression? Definitely. So if we look at biochemistry, yes it’s a factor. If we look at disease processes, there are many diseases where depression is a predictable consequence. If we look at drugs, there are many drugs that have
Cites pmoriarty · 2021-06 · on “A possible link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease”
This reminds me of a talk by Michael Yapko titled "Keys to unlocking depression" [1], where he said: "My first job was working in a psychiatric facility and I was the admissions person. It was my job to admit new patients to the unit. ... "I would interview people who had been through the worst experiences that you could imagine. People who had been raped, tortured, mutilated, people who had fled their homelands literally with bullets whizzing past their head, people who lost their entire family in one fell swoop in a plane crash or a car crash, people who had suffered the worst adversities you could possibly imagine. "When I would interview these people it would be easy to appreciate why th