A Breakthrough Treatment for Depression | David Carreon, MD

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  Getting out of bed is incredibly difficult if you have depression.

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  And so the things that would heal you, you can't do.

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  And so it's, you know, insult to injury.

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  And then you also have an amplified sense of guilt.

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  And so you beat yourself up for not doing the thing you can't do.

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  And, you know, that makes you feel even more discouraged.

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  It's just this vicious cycle.

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  Once you're in the spin, it's hard to get out of by yourself.

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  But that said, the key principle is whatever energy you've got, if it's the ability to walk to the mailbox, or if it's the ability to run 10 miles, like use it.

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  And the other thing to recognize is that sometimes that varies wildly.

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  It's a hard thing when you don't have the energy to do the thing to make you feel better.

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  So depression can be a brutal experience.

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  It can make you feel like there's just something fundamentally missing from your life.

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  Some vital spark that has been extinguished, leaving you feeling numb, joyless, disconnected from who you know yourself to be, and more and more from those around you as well.

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  One of the toughest aspects is often the feeling that this feeling that you have, it'll never end and that you'll never feel alive and connected like yourself again.

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  And this has become a really pervasive experience for so many people.

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  And typical treatments have varying levels of effectiveness for different people.

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  And often they tilt towards some blend of therapy and medication.

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  And for many, these can be God sends a.

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  But they can also come with side effects.

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