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- Dancing in the Streets
A History of Collective Joy Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 An account of the toll that depression has taken on European and North American health since the 18th century.
- How 7 Historic Figures Overcame Depression Without Doctors
Drugless Antidotes Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 While Sylvia Plath and Ernest Hemingway received extensive medical treatment for depression but tragically committed suicide, other famously depressed people including Abraham Lincoln, William James, Georgia OKeeffe, Sigmund Freud, William Tecumseh Sherman, Franz Kafka, and the Buddha took different paths.
- Mood Disorders Association of Ontario (MDAO)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
Depression and Joy Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
- Surviving America's Depression Epidemic
How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 The rate of depression in the United States has increased more than tenfold in the last fifty years, and American mental health institutions have become part of the problem rather than the solution. The good news is that age-old wisdom and legitimate science -- uncorrupted by the profit-margin pressures of pharmaceutical and insurance companies -- have much to inform us about revitalizing depressed people and a depressing culture.
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