Stanford's Sapolsky On Depression in U.S. (Full Lecture)
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Published 2009-11-10
All Comments (21)
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I'm listening to Sapolsky, on Youtube , for FREE. Amazing world we live in...
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“Yea, I went to Stanford for a bit.”
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It's honestly a beautiful thing that any old average Joe can listen to this without being enrolled in Stanford. Probably the coolest thing about the Internet imo.
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I’m 71 and I’ve been dealing with this since I was about 9. I’ve have countless therapists, physiatrists and more meds than you can imagine. No one ever really got it but this guy gets it. Someone gets it!
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"It's a biochemical disorder with a genetic component with early exposure experiences that make it so someone can't appreciate sunsets" Nothing has hit me harder than this
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ive never seen someone look more like a professor than this guy.
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"Depression is agression turned inward because you got nobody else out there to have these arguments" ~ well said
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All the years I've spent in therapy I never heard depression explained to me, this was very healing for me. God bless this man.
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"It's a strange poverty of the English language, and indeed of many other languages, that we use the same word "depression" to describe how a kid feels when it rains on his birthday, and to describe how somebody feels the minute before they commit suicide." Andrew Solomon, TED Talk Depression, the Secret we Share.
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"Depression is aggression turned inward." Wow. That got me.
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About 12 years ago we listened to this and it changed me life. It helped me to realize I needed help.
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So glad to live in the age where educational material like this is free to the public and that there are those who would also freely share it. Thank you!
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I'd like to thank Stanford and Professor Sapolsky for making their educational materials like this lecture open to the public. This lecture was quite eye opening for me.
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"You can't shame me out of feeling depressed. If shame worked, then I would have shamed myself out of it long ago." So smart, and so right. I hope you find a path that lets you deal with the negativity. CBT did a lot for me, but it's still a struggle.
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FYI, they released a 13 years later updated lecture version of this just recently.
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It’s really special that Stanford made this available to the general public.
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Excellent, no frills, no bull, no fancy language, explanation of depression. It even has humour.
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It’s always nice to listen to a teacher who has passion for their calling.
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I don't remember a time when I didn't have major depressive disorder. Not only did I learn some important new information from this video, I received something I didn't realize I needed so badly: validation. Thank you for also addressing the semantics of words like "depressed". I often get asked why I'm depressed and then I realize they don't know what I'm talking about. Thank you for this. Sincerely.
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Damn, as a MD I really envy the students in this class and wish my teachers were this good. He managed to convey a great summary of the literature of depression in such an easy way to understand for even a layperson and with great eloquence. This was an amazing lecture and I'm thankful this is free for anyone to watch
