Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia

So hopefully you'll appreciate this, but this is actually what we really need to look at, right?

So we need to take this sort of philosophical approach to understanding depression.

What is life?

Who are you?

How do these two things relate to each other?

And once we understand how those two things connect, hopefully it will equip you for a way of like living and existing in the world.

That allows you to like be happier.

I know it sounds kind of weird.

I don't know how to say it.

But like basically if you're existentially depressed, you need an existential solution.

And an existential solution isn't going to come from cognitive behavioral therapy or an SSRI.

It's going to come from fucking like philosophically sitting down and looking at your life and really trying to understand like what the hell is going on here.

And the cool thing is if we understand a couple of principles, then we'll sort of help ourselves move in the right direction.

OK, so if you fall into this third camp, this camp where you're looking into the future and things are genuinely bleak, how do we approach this?

So we're going to approach it a little bit like philosophically.

Right.

So you're existentially depressed.

which means that you're a thinker, and you think about life, and you think about the meaning of life, and you think, oh, there's no meaning in life, and fair enough, okay?

So we're going to approach things from that angle.

This isn't as simple as neurotransmitters and serotonin and things like that.