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Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

They're like ingesting information from the Internet.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

So we need to really reduce our lateral movements, right?

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

So think about all the things that you do over the course of a day that will lead to nothing.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

And instead, shift your work towards anything that leads to anywhere and experience more.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

There are two or three other...

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

Simple techniques that we can talk about because y'all may be listening to this and be like, oh, is this really going to change things?

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

It really is.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

So here's the key thing to understand.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

All of these techniques work by restoring the sinusoidal rhythm of life.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

So this is what life is supposed to be like.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

There are downs and there are ups and there's stuff in the middle.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

There's up, there's down, there's up.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

You'll notice that the width of the peaks is different.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

We have some peaks that are very narrow and some peaks that are very wide.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

This is what normal life is like.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

Now, in reactive depression, what tends to happen is we have a prolonged—there's less sinusoidal rhythm, right?

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

So there's more variance here, whereas in reactive depression, something bad happens, and then we're locked into this pattern for a while.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

We're locked into this pattern for a while.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

And then we have endogenous depression, which is way more constant than even reactive depression.

HealthyGamerGG
Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

So the key thing—and this is what's pretty cool about this—