Jonathan Rottenberg

I think I was at grave risk for not making it to the other side.

But I have now been on the other side for some decades.

And I don't think any of this would have happened if I had continued in history.

Absolutely.

I would love for there to be less depression in the world.

And I am very interested in trying to understand how people can experience well-being despite a history of depression, how people can avoid having future episodes of depression.

Depression is demoralizing and it often leads people to be profoundly hopeless.

So I am delighted to be able to say that there are treatments and people should absolutely try psychotherapy.

They should absolutely try medications if they've found that they're not able to resolve the episode on their own.

And they should also rely, they should also try to get help from the people around them because it often is an all of the above approach that really enables people to make the kinds of changes that are needed in order to fully recover from depression.

So I believe that treatment is often a critical first step towards recovering and ultimately thriving after depression.

I did.

It was something that I thought about a lot.

This was actually the psychiatrist who admitted me to the hospital at Johns Hopkins for a month.

And he had been working with me for over a year.

We had tried, I don't want to say everything,

but we had tried many medications together and in combination.

And I felt that he had done his absolute best, but also that he hadn't been able to make me better.

And I felt a certain amount of guilt that I wasn't a good patient at the time.

And I also felt like he didn't