Dépression & Dé-pression (Rabbi Avraham Twerski)

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you [Music] I think we ought to understand depression because the depression is a descriptive term right a person is depressed it has also become a clinical term he is suffering from a depression right it's diagnosis like diabetes or pneumonia now I think that there is a feeling of depression if there's a loss but a person has lost family member a person has lost his fortune those are realistic feelings of grief it's a grief kind of depression again antidepressants and Prozac are not going to change those right however there is something within our system that our chemical system does affect the way we feel and if we have certain disturbances and I know our hormones right it changes the way we feel and can give us a feeling of severe depression and despair

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1. 0:00you [Music] I think we ought to understand depression because the depression is a descriptive term…
2. 0:30person has lost his fortune those are realistic feelings of grief it's a grief kind of…
3. 1:02right now that can be brought on by anything and sometimes out of the rule may…
4. 1:34an inability to feel right now I believe that when suicide happens it comes from feelings…
5. 2:04should it be correct trying to do psychotherapy with a person who's got a biochemical depression…

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