How I Deal with Depression
summary
Describes a personal, data‑driven system: daily mood logging with the DailyO app, weekly validated depression inventories, and tracking automatic negative thoughts with a tally counter to reveal patterns like winter dips consistent with seasonal affective tendencies and mood drops after a family health scare but sharp improvement after vaccination. Uses cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, talk therapy and medication — specifically 20 mg Lexapro — framed as ongoing management like diabetes not a cure.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to depression talk
- 2:07Understanding depression vs sadness
- 4:33Personal experience with depression
- 8:25Symptoms and cognitive distortions
- 10:34Depression as a bias in thinking
- 13:01Tracking mood and data collection
- 16:54Treating depression systematically
- 19:20Lifestyle changes and resources
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