Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia

People can't afford houses.

In the U.S., a lot of people have crushing amounts of student debt.

We don't know what the hell is going on with dating, right?

So we don't know what's going on with the climate.

We don't know what's going on with the environment.

There's a lot of political unrest.

There are wars.

So as you like look out into the world, is the future a hopeful place?

And for a lot of people, the answer is no.

The bigger problem is that the standard treatments that we use don't really work well for people with existential depression.

This is the second kind of depression, which is almost like a logical reaction to the world becoming a worse place.

Because this idea that depression is caused by a serotonin imbalance, I think is partially true.

It's true in some cases, but not true for everybody.

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Now, the second problem is that if we look at the other sort of gold standard of treatment for depression, it's something called cognitive behavioral therapy.

But I've worked with a ton of patients who have this existential depression for whom cognitive behavioral therapy doesn't work.

So let's take a look at that.

So this is a great paper by a guy named Asir Ghami, fantastic researcher on mood disorders, depressive realism, and existential psychotherapy.

So we'll get to that in a second.