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Meaningful Activities Protect the Teen Brain From Depression by Olga Khazan published at www.theatlantic.com A new study of adolescents found that those who derive joy from selfless deeds were less likely to be depressed over time. Our entire lives, when...
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Interview with Adam Phillips: The Art of Nonfiction No. 7 Interviewed by Paul Holdengräber adapted from The Paris Review Adam Phillips was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1954. He was educated at Oxford, where he read English. Later he trained as a child psychotherapist...
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Does Depression Help Us Think Better? Written by Jonah Lehrer Why do people get depressed? At first glance, the answer seems obvious: the mind, like the flesh, is prone to malfunction. Once that malfunction happens — perhaps it’s an errant gene triggering a shortage...