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Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

The key thing is we just want to restore this normal fluctuation.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

It doesn't matter what you do.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

The important thing is the variety.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

If you've been sitting on your ass for eight hours a day, it doesn't matter what kind of movement you do.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

You can do yoga.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

You can do stretching.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

You can go for a walk.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

You can take a bath.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

You can even just get up and do this.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

It doesn't matter what kind of movement you do.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

The key thing is that you move in some way.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

Now, the last thing that we're going to talk about are two microscopic techniques.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

So these are actual techniques from something called logotherapy.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

So I don't know if you all have heard of a guy named Viktor Frankl.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

Right.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

So he wrote Man's Search for Meaning, was a Holocaust survivor, became a doctor, was I think I guess a psychiatrist.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

I'm not sure if he was like neurologist or psychiatrist or what.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

But he developed this system of therapy, which was specifically targeting existential depression.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

So here's just his characterization.

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Why It's Getting Harder To Treat Existential Depression

Patients who fall into this diagnostic category usually complain of a sense of futility and meaningless or emptiness and void.