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00:00So, we can start by talking about depression.
00:19Depressed people are sad and frustrated and disappointed.
00:24They tend to feel all negative emotions simultaneously in a manner that's paralyzing.
00:32Depression is fundamentally a biochemical disorder.
00:34One of the things I tried to determine as a good behaviorist was whether the person
00:40who was suffering was suffering because they were ill in the strictly physiological sense
00:46or whether they were suffering from the cumulative micro and macro catastrophes of life.
00:58The probability that tossing an antidepressant into the mix is all of a sudden going to fix
01:02your life that are absolutely catastrophically out of order is zero.
01:07The more unstable your life is, the less serotonin your brain produces and that makes you hypersensitive
01:13to negative emotion and suppresses positive emotion.
01:20You take the problem, I'm suffering, and then you think, well, why are you suffering?
01:24It's exposure therapy.
01:26And then you can practice encountering the obstacles that are stopping you and it'll
01:30make you braver and it'll help you deal with your problems.
01:33Voluntary confrontation with the forces of darkness and chaos is the fundamental story
01:38of life.