[Youtube Review][TED] Depression, the secret we share | Andrew Solomon

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Playtime Comments : [TED] Depression, the secret we share | Andrew Solomon

Ja**************:

"It's a sensation of being afraid all the time but not even knowing, what it is that you're afraid of" (3:50)

We************:

4:04 "The only reason not to kill oneself was so as not to hurt other people"

That is the only thing that has kept me alive for about 8 years.

Jo**********:

6:28 50 years ago they had elecric shock therapy for depression. They need to use phycadelics

pl********:

15:00 I wonder if that poor depressed yarn lady is still with us since the speaker insulted her...

Co***:

20:07 I feel like that guy in the middle row

Ab**********:

10:41 That silence right after he said "The truth lies" left a cold chill in my heart

Ch*********:

16:00 I'm not crazy!!!! The whole therapy thing we do here is so idiotic. I knew I wasn't the only one who thought so!

Di*********:

@7:07
That roll on "three" though

 

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Top Comments : [TED] Depression, the secret we share | Andrew Solomon

Yo*********:

"The opposite of depression isn't happiness, it's vitality": on the list of truest words ever spoken in the world

kl*****:

Every person who believes that the cure to depression is just getting over it and that it's all in your head need to watch this, I have never heard a better explanation

Cr*********:

"The opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality", thank you so much for the honesty.

Kr**:

I think a major problem with talking about anxiety and depression is that they have been labelled and paired with normal base emotions. So its very easy for people who don't experience clinical depression or an anxiety disorder to think 'I feel these emotions too, it's normal'. If they were referred to them as say Serotonin Deficiency or Amygdala Hyper Sensitivity (just random names I made up) then the general public would know they are distinctively different. As it stands, people often misdiagnose themselves because they think clinical depression is just being depressed about something, when in fact it is closer to a chemical deficiency.

Ma*******:

I have never seen a man speak about an emotion so clearly and understandably.

An**:

"It's a sensation of being afraid all the time but not even knowing what it is that you're afraid of" - Line that describes me.

tu************:

The funniest thing is when you go to a psychologist and you unleash all your pains and he says you should exercise more and kicks you out

Ma*****************:

My 19 year old daughter suffers from depression and anxiety and has really been impacted for 3 years barely leaving the houses. It’s been a chicken and egg journey to look for the source. As a parent it is soul crushing to watch and frustrating to deal with. It’s an enemy you can’t beat or a mountain you can’t summit for your child. And for her she feels like she’s let us down compounding her depression.

She is very intelligent, sensitive, empathetic and eminently artistic. I had thought that perhaps if she could express her depression on canvas, paper, clay or in words she could find some personal sense of worth, confidence and self esteem and become vital as the speaker says. But even those activities that she once found enjoyable are now oppressive even as an outlet. I am confident that with her talent and expressive vocabulary she could actually help others through her art and writing, but she only seems to have energy to find mundane activities with no intrinsic value to avoid coping with the depression.

And watching her grow from baby to adult I’d have never thought way back when that this could happen. Looking back, however, some of the signs of depression and anxiety were there. We just didn’t didn’t know that it was anything more than a idiosyncratic behavior or a phase.

To**********:

Laying in my bed at 2 in the afternoon laughing hysterically at this as tears flow unwillingly

Ma************:

The speech about the veil being removed was so true

Ja********:

People always tell me the typical "You know other people are worse off than you. You could have cancer." We might not have literal cancer, but I often wonder what it would feel like to be dying every day desperately wanting to live, than to be living every day desperately wanting to die. We do have cancer.. just not in the form of a physical tumor and alot slower of a death.

li******:

I don't know if I'm depressed but I feel constantly bad for my life but I'm too scared to change that. I find confort in confort and when I'm out of my confort zone(home) I just wanna run and be alone. Also I think i don't deserve to have friends for no reason at all

An********:

"Depression is a flaw in love. There no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy."

Ch********:

Depression for me is like drowning but you don't die.....

Ch*********:

“The best day I’ve ever had was when tomorrow never came”

Lo**********:

It sucks when you think you're lazy but you're just so depressed that you don't have the energy to get up and get out of bed

m:

I've beaten moderate depression recently after a cycling accident and years ago i beat moderately severe depression, all by myself at 26, 7 sessions with a trainee therapist and microdosing saffron for a year straight. Only thing I haven't beaten is my narcissism...

Ma*********:

"But is it a chemical problem or a psychological problem? And does it need a chemical cure or a philosophical cure? And I couldn't figure out which it was. And then I understood that actually, we aren't advanced enough in either area for it to explain things fully. The chemical cure and the psychological cure both have a role to play, and I also figured out that depression was something that was braided so deep into us that there was no separating it from our character and personality. I want to say that the treatments we have for depression are appalling. They're not very effective. They're extremely costly They come with innumerable side effects. They're a disaster. But I am so grateful that I live now and not 50 years ago, when there would have been almost nothing to be done."

E*:

I get told I’m a robot, I barely show my emotions. I’d rather sleep than be productive

Hi*********:

Most accurate and helpful video on depression which shows that we still are in the very beginning phase of the study over depression but still how we are much better than what our parents or grandparents had. It never talks about a miracle cure but also tells us that as long as we look further we will find our own miracle somewhere. How it won't go away permanently but we can still be prepared for it and face it with proper help. Really loved it and I hope if we had hindi subtitles, I would really love to suggest it to my parents and some of the relatives but they don't understand english very well.

yo************:

I have a hard time brushing my teeth daily. I dont do my hair or wear makeup but i make sure to shower. Im not making my deadlines but i manage to show up at work. I avoid answering the phone and call back later, sometimes. Bills are overdue, taxes overdue, house not organized, piles of clothes. People asking over and over, Are you ok. What does ok mean. It's so exhausting. If only i didnr have it i could do so much.

Ed**********:

My heart was in my throat the entire video. I’ve never heard anyone describe the feeling of depression so well.

ch**************:

I'm not depressed, however, this guy has to be one of the best orators I've ever heard

th***********:

If anybody’s out there struggling with depression I just want you to know you are loved

Am*******:

"Depression is a family secret that everyone has."

Am***:

I wished he'd never stop talking, I want his voice to accompany me everywhere. is that weird ? for 29 minutes, I wasn't alone

St*********:

I’ve had extreme depression my whole life and didnt even realize itit was all i ever knew

Pa**********:

Absolute top-class presentation, from a primary source.

Mi********:

"The opposite of depression isn't happiness, it's vitality": on the list of truest words ever spoken in the world

Br***********:

Listening to talks like this, therapy, ancient wisdom, religion, and many others far and wide. What I have come to understand about my own depression is it is unequivocally bound by purpose. Find your purpose, whether that be small items made of yarn or the pursuit of a deep truth behind the sad sickness we all struggle from. The pursuit of the purpose is what brings vitality, happiness, and fulfillment. You may not fund it immediately, but the pursuit of purpose will guide you to some sort of cure. That cure may need to be aided by medication, music, meditation or religion, but find your purpose. Things change and so may your purpose, but find it, find out, because when you do, the short life we all live may at least mean something. It is worth living, so long as you are living for something. So find it, and stay strong.

sw*********:

i could not feel anything everytime i was awake so i used to hurt myself not by cutting but by banging my head against the wall. I longed to feel pain not to feel that i am alive but to know that i can still feel. until it did not work anymore no matter how hard i hit my head. then my escape became sleeping. it was where i could only live and feel. Sleep became my escape to the point i didn't wanna wake up. I just wanted to dream forever and never deal with the waking life anymore, if you can call that "life" at all.

I'm okay now, i chose to help myself.
and I made it.

An*******:

I have his book "The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression". This guy is amazing! Everyone who has depression should read this book. It's so relatable.
In the video, when he said that he would rather go through depression for 1 month than through anxiety for the same amount of time, I can completely agree with that. It's desperating.
I finally have found the right medication for me, after so many tries. Some days, I feel okay. Other days, I relapse. It's not a continuous upward curve. Everyday is a struggle. But I'm still here. And I know I'll get better.

 

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