How to recover from depression

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it as a comprehensive talk on depression, and one says it helped them through a bad period.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Psychlopaedia.org

Topic

depression recovery

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

• For anyone experiencing depression right now, this video helped me immensely at one point in my life [0]. CBT has also changed my life; I highly recommend the book 'Feeling Good'[1]. [0] - [VIDEO] [1] - [LINK]

• For the cognitive aspect of depression a nice comprehensive and dense video I found is [0], key factors in slide at 24:10 and the reasons for this approach are at a slide at 23:00 including why a medication only approach is intractable in the long …

• This 2018 talk from Dr Yapko, "Keys to unlock depression: Why skills work better than pills" - [VIDEO] - suggests a multidimensional viewpoint rather than purely biological. He says the causes are: 1. Biological. He says "Yes, biology matters, but surprisingly not as much as …