The Truth about Depression BBC Full Documentary 2013

The Truth about Depression BBC Full Documentary 2013.

Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky, posits that depression is the most damaging disease that you can experience. Right now it is the number four cause of dis…
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  1. It’s called growing a pair and maning the fuck up! Been there down that.
    It’s called excepting reality. People have to much expectations in this
    fucked up world and when they don’t see what they want, they get all bat
    shit crazy. Except the world for the cruel world that is is and you wont
    give a shit anymore and therefore all sadness is gone. Except Reality.

  2. 2 attempts, 5 Hospitalizations… Nobody should have to deal with these
    illnesses, the sooner we cure these the better.

  3. Being happy in this sick world is sick and should be treated. How can
    anyone be happy is my question. Happy people live in a fantasy world. Life
    sucks. I don’t give a damn what anybody says.

  4. This is really interesting. The main reason why I want to major in
    psychology is to help these type of people.. I personally suffered from
    depression when I was a freshmen in high school, but I have healed since
    then.
    Thank you for the upload!

  5. God’s Son will make his long awaited return. He will wipe away every tear.
    Make an appointement with the Great Physicain and be made whole body, mind,
    and spirit.

    John 6:47
    Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting
    life.

    Joy is deeper than emissions of dopamine and oxytocin. It is perspective.
    You need a second birth to see with the eyes of the spirit.

  6. THERE IS A WAY OUT! Hey guys, I’ve chronicled my battle with depression on
    my channel and I recently came out of a major depressive episode. I am
    getting my life back from the all consuming darkness and am feeling good
    after a year long bout of deep depression. There IS hope! You can love life
    again. Check my channel out.

  7. The only Religion that uses God’s name Jehovah and tells of a resurrection
    of loved ones in an incoming New World order of things where sadness is
    finally gone. Thank you.

  8. Depression can easily be cured. It is not some mysterious, tough, deep
    rooted disorder nothing can fix.
    Purpose. You need a big purpose in life, something bigger than yourself.
    Sufficient activity, you need to do lots of sports, eat healthy, travel,
    take walks, enter a new building, go to a new mall. Social life. You need
    to meet people, good people, If you’re a man you need to find a woman to
    fall in love with, you need to find friends, good friends. You need to find
    people who are just like yourself, feeling not alone is important. Millions
    feel like you do right now. Real struggle, leave the western world, go live
    in Africa or India for some time. Put yourself into a situation where basic
    needs become a problem. In short, live. Just FUCKING LIFE. Most depressed
    people live in the western world and spend significant time wasting time.
    Everybody would be depressed if all he did was grow old inside his four
    walls, not having sufficient sun light etc.
    Even the worst trauma is nothing against a purpose. If you can’t find
    something to live for, find something to die for. At least you did
    something for others. And stop focusing on yourself. And don’t take life
    too seriously. You must cultivate humor. And just power tru man. We’re in
    this together. I’m depressed right now but fuck it, I know someone reading
    this feels just like me If not much worse. We’re in this together!! We got
    this.

  9. depression is not always sadness, it’s emptiness, tiredness, boredom, you
    basically become stir crazy and you dont want to move or do anything
    anymore, because nothing entertains you anymore.

  10. I can’t quite put my finger on it but I may have a problem. Throughout the
    day , I feel so sure of myself and my goals in life. But usually around
    night time , I find myself thinking somber thoughts and that NOTHING will
    work out. I have suicidal thoughts from time to time ,but I really don’t
    want to tell anyone though

  11. A lot of the people in this are depressed without causation.

    I feel down because my generation was fed a story that if we worked hard,
    got educated, that we would get a decent job and standard of living. Only
    to graduate and instantly be thrown on the unemployed scrap heap, have our
    job applications ignored, demonised by our own government as being lazy
    scroungers who want a life on benefits; as if we went into all that student
    debt just to rot on unemployment.

    I do voluntary work in an effort to bulk out my CV with some on the job
    experience, but it isn’t helping. This is my second voluntary “job” since
    entering the jobs market, over time you think that’s all you’re worth,
    nothing. That you cannot get paid work because you’re worthless, that you
    should feel grateful you’re even allowed to occupy the floor space and work
    for someone for free.

    I’ve applied for jobs cleaning toilets and been told I’m not qualified,
    that I need hygiene qualifications and experience. A degree graduate being
    told they’re not even good enough to clean toilets, do people have any idea
    what that does to your self image?

    My parents generation walked into jobs straight out of school. I’m a 28
    year old university graduate with qualifications in the very systems that
    make e-commerce work and I cannot get a job sweeping the floor in a
    supermarket. I’ve been looking since 2009, the world just doesn’t want me.
    I feel like I’m standing at a cliff edge with an angry mob behind me, the
    very government that motivated me to go into higher education in the first
    place kicking me in the back; telling me to cross a bridge that isn’t there.

    Clearly all this is my fault, I’m refusing to leap off a cliff onto a non
    existent bridge. Therefore the demonisation and humiliation of those on
    welfare is justified, we’re all just lazy and need a good kicking.

  12. Clinical depression is not just the blues or “that time of the month” kind
    of thing. It’s a serious disease. It’s like a black drape over your life
    that keeps you from enjoying anything. I remember thinking that there is
    nothing in this whole world that could make me feel better. I have lost
    two people close to me to suicide. Please don’t kill yourself!!. I
    encourage you to hang on. I was afraid I would go to hell so I just hung
    on. There were days when it was hour-by-hour and even minute by minute.
    But my fear of hell kept me back. I’m so glad I was too scared to kill
    myself. Now — many years later, I only have bouts of depression. Seems
    to run in a cycle. I now believe Depression may be a Spirit, one that you
    have the power to kick out but you have to get hold of God first. Then you
    can command the Depression to leave. Now, so many years later I can get
    relief by demanding that the Depression leave me “in Jesus’ name”. Most of
    the time that works but there are times when I am so weak in body and
    spirit that I need someone just to hold onto until it passes or I sleep for
    an entire day or two.

    God bless all of you out there suffering with this terrible thing. I’m 70
    now and have been depressed nearly all my life, starting at pre-teen. I
    did not know what it was until I was nearly 25 years old and someone my age
    who later killed herself told me that it was depression. The good news is
    that it gets much better later in life. That is, the severity eases up. I
    don’t have the panic attacks any more and I figure everyone has some kind
    of battle to fight and it’s not so bad any more. Plus, it gives you
    compassion for others who are in pain.

    God bless you all. Just hang on — it will get better if you don’t give
    up.

  13. I was depression a couple days ago. I stopped being depressed because I
    knew it doesnt solve the problem. BE HAPPY GUYS! It does not making
    anything better, just WORSE. I know that it is not a choice for some people
    to be happy, but just keep trying.
    

  14. If everyone was truly in love and had truly loving families, ‘depression’
    or what i simply call unhappiness would not exist!

  15. So I’ve looked up things about depression and every time I get 90-100% of
    the symptoms and I’m scared and if i told my mom she would think I’m lying
    call me stupid and things like that because I always seem happy and what
    has happened in my life doesn’t help i get yelled at hit by my brothers
    until I’m brushed up and crying then i go to my room and take my hidden
    stash of pills i don’t use I have them there for if I wanna ever end it you
    know I’m just scared and confused and I’m always sad and really mad I
    always look at myself and hate me and I’ve been bullied cut myself nothing
    pleases me and i wanna end it all everyday! My mom has been depressed to
    and she had a bad child hood drugs cutting and i see her scars and she said
    it’s surgery but the way they are I know its a lie and I just.. need help
    and since i make myself look happy and crazy and I try to laugh I know
    everyone will not believe me what can I do

  16. I’ve had about 15 years of this so far, I’m 29 years old, I’ve had anxiety
    problems since little school, and depression set in at about age 14. I
    can’t remember a day over that age that I felt free from depression. That
    doesn’t mean I’m sad all the time, It’s just something that’s always there,
    like a permanent heavy bag strapped to you. But as the years go on the bag
    gets heavier and heavier. I’m still searching for some kind of meaning to
    my life. It must be the most vicious self-perpetuating circle known to man.

    Depression->Anxiety->Isolation->Loneliness->Depression->Anxiety ->….all
    the time you’re digging yourself deeper into the hole making it harder to
    climb out.

    Everything reinforces Itself, It’s like a disease that eats away at your
    personality until there’s nothing left but an empty shell.

    My point is, if you even suspect you are beginning to come down with
    depression, get help immediately, don’t ignore it and presume it will just
    go away one day like I did. It won’t.
    

  17. Our father Jehovah God, see’s and feels our pain. He sent his son Jesus to
    help us by providing us with hope. Remember Satan, and his demons know of
    his existence They shudder at him james 2:19. when you are in pain pray,
    through Jesus the key to his fathers heart. He will help you.

  18. I’ve been a Robert Sapolsky online lecture addict for the last several
    days. Awesome stuff.

    Here he makes several points regarding major depression that I’ve been
    hammering at in my blog now for months. These would apply to bipolar
    depression as well.

    +Mani Scienide , you might find this interesting and +Joan Laine and +Sarah
    Ryan as well.

    What I like about him is that he is a rare scholar who isn’t completely
    territorial about their pet theory for this or that behavior. He goes over
    all kinds of territory and the pros and cons of each possibility.

    Stanford’s Sapolsky On Depression in U.S. (Full Lecture)

  19. The only Religion that uses God’s name Jehovah and tells of a resurrection
    of loved ones in an incoming New World order of things where sadness is
    finally gone. Thank you.

  20. Depressive people not only hurt themselves, they hurt other people too..
    They deserve everything they got handled to them..

  21. THERE IS A WAY OUT! Hey guys, I’ve chronicled my battle with depression on
    my channel and I recently came out of a major depressive episode. I am
    getting my life back from the all consuming darkness and am feeling good
    after a year long bout of deep depression. There IS hope! You can love life
    again. Check my channel out.

  22. Holy crap, this is like the opposite of my childhood memories of church. I
    was not bored for a *second* listening to this guy, and that’s rare. A
    riveting presentation.

  23. This big focus on “it’s biology”, hammering that home irked me. When
    clearly anything that affects the organism is in some way biology. The
    biological effects follow the events in the world which have brought them
    on. Bringing the brain chemicals back into balance after the event does not
    psychologically heal the individual, though they may feel that way and more
    power to them, that’s fine, but we must call a spade a spade.

    Aside from imbalances of chemicals which do not come from the outside
    influences, we are far better served working with the psychological side of
    things here. Particularly regarding willpower. I worry when proffessors
    such as this are attempting to bring meaning back into people’s lives when
    they themselves have no sense of there being any meaning or purpose to
    anything at all.

  24. Enjoyed this. Much that appears sound to me for sure, not to mention
    interesting.

    A minor thing that bugs me just a bit (and one sees this a lot) is that the
    ‘audience’ seems immature — overreacting with their laughing, etc. Almost
    like groupies. I just dislike that. He could say ANY joke and they would
    explode like it was incredibly brilliant. But that’s the only real fly in
    the ointment.

  25. Hmmmm….he seems to say that you have to have a trigger to start the
    depression. My depression started at age 8. I still have constant
    depression 50 years later. Nothing bad happened to me at age 8. And my life
    is just fine now but i can’t enjoy it. Medication and talk therapy do not
    help. I continue on by shear willpower. You’re only here once…I know that
    my lack of brain chemicals cause this and i won’t let it kill me even
    though it is misery….

  26. I am a middle aged guy and if I have that heart attack I hope it kills me.
    No family or friends so who cares if I recover?

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