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How to recover from depression

Psychlopaedia.org · talk · Watch on YouTube

Mental health & neurodiversityPsychology & human behavior

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.

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.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “this video helped me immensely at one point in my life”

    Video that helped the commenter through depression

    Panini_Jones, 2023-09 · Strong recommendation · in “Breaking Through Depression”

  2. “a nice comprehensive and dense video I found”

    Comprehensive talk on cognitive factors and why medication alone falls short

    antman, 2021-02 · Recommendation · in “How Antidepressants Work, at Last?”

  3. “suggests a multidimensional viewpoint rather than purely biological.”

    Multidimensional view of depression beyond biology

    CretinDesAlpes, 2021-09 · Recommendation · in “Robert Sapolsky on Depression (2009)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: depression, psychology, michael yapko, therapy, mental health

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