Depression in sentence

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And we decided to take on depression, and the reason we took on depression is because it's so prevalent, and as you know, there are many treatments for depression, with medication and psychotherapy, even electroconvulsive therapy, but there are millions of people, and there are still 10 or 20 percent of patients with depression that do not respond, and it is these patients that we want to help.

And let's see if we can use this technique to help these patients with depression.

So the first thing we did was, we compared, what's different in the brain of someone with depression and someone who is normal, and what we did was PET scans to look at the blood flow of the brain, and what we noticed is that in patients with depression compared to normals, areas of the brain are shut down, and those are the areas in blue.

And so patients with depression have hyperactivity.

So we went ahead and implanted electrodes in patients with depression.

We're able to drive down area 25, down to a more normal level, and we're able to turn back online the frontal lobes of the brain, and indeed we're seeing very striking results in these patients with severe depression.

So now we are in clinical trials, and are in Phase III clinical trials, and this may become a new procedure, if it's safe and we find that it's effective, to treat patients with severe depression.

I've shown you that we can use it to treat a mood circuit in cases of depression.

So the message I want to leave you with today is that, indeed, there are several circuits in the brain that are malfunctioning across various disease states, whether we're talking about Parkinson's disease, depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's.

And Holly Morgan told me that she used to battle depression until she got involved with effective altruism, and now is one of the happiest people she knows.

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

And while insomnia rarely leads to death, its chemical mechanisms are similar to anxiety attacks found in those experiencing depression and anxiety.

Several groups are studying conditions like depression, schizophrenia and bipolar and what's going on in terms of sleep disruption.

In the life that only I see, who I am, who I really am, is someone who struggles intensely with depression.

Now, for someone who has never experienced depression or doesn't really know what that means, that might surprise them to hear, because there's this pretty popular misconception that depression is just being sad when something in your life goes wrong, when you break up with your girlfriend, when you lose a loved one, when you don't get the job you wanted.

Real depression isn't being sad when something in your life goes wrong.

Real depression is being sad when everything in your life is going right.

That's real depression, and that's what I suffer from.

And no one's talking about depression, but we need to be, because right now it's a massive problem.

But the severity of it and the seriousness of it is this: every 30 seconds, every 30 seconds, somewhere, someone in the world takes their own life because of depression, and it might be two blocks away, it might be two countries away, it might be two continents away, but it's happening, and it's happening every single day.

Well, I survived, and that just leaves me with my story, and my story is this: In four simple words, I suffer from depression.

I suffer from depression, and for a long time, I think, I was living two totally different lives, where one person was always afraid of the other.

I thought about it every single day, and if I'm being totally honest, standing here I've thought about it again since, because that's the sickness, that's the struggle, that's depression, and depression isn't chicken pox.

So you hold it in and you hide it, and you hold it in and you hide it, and even though it's keeping you in bed every day and it's making your life feel empty no matter how much you try and fill it, you hide it, because the stigma in our society around depression is very real.

That's pure ignorance, and that ignorance has created a world that doesn't understand depression, that doesn't understand mental health.

And that's ironic to me, because depression is one of the best documented problems we have in the world, yet it's one of the least discussed.

But right now, depression is society's deep cut that we're content to put a Band-Aid over and pretend it's not there.

Depression is okay.

And know that you're sick, you're not weak, and it's an issue, not an identity, because when you get past the fear and the ridicule and the judgment and the stigma of others, you can see depression for what it really is, and that's just a part of life, just a part of life, and as much as I hate, as much as I hate some of the places, some of the parts of my life depression has dragged me down to, in a lot of ways I'm grateful for it.

The world I believe in is one where I can look someone in the eye and say, "I'm going through hell," and they can look back at me and go, "Me too," and that's okay, and it's okay because depression is okay.

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