Dr. Caroline Leaf
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Doctors legally are required to do that before they put you on, and most doctors don't, and it's a legal requirement.
And if you read that document, you would have very strong second thoughts about taking them because that document's filled with all the things that the drug could do to you.
But it's really important that you find the source.
So see the depression not as something negative.
See it as a helpful messenger.
It's telling you something.
So embrace it instead of suppress it.
And don't see depression as an it.
See depression as a clue.
Be a detective.
Be a thought detective.
Say, okay, that depression is a messenger.
It's helpful.
As soon as you do that, 1,400 neurophysiological responses in your brain and body will start working for you and your resilience will increase.
So your attitude to, okay, this depression's fine.
It's okay.
There's a reason for it.
It's not a disease.
I'm not a broken brain.
I'm okay.