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When Meds Didn't Improve My Depression, I Tried Retaining My Brain Waves Instead

By Laura Zera — 2016

Two years ago, I walked through the door of a Seattle therapist’s office with the goal of resetting my 45-year-old brain. A trauma survivor with a history of depression and anxiety, I was hoping that an alternative mode of therapy I’d heard about called neurofeedback might finally alleviate my more stubborn symptoms.

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Martin Seligman: Cure for Depression Coming

Positive psychology pioneer Martin Seligman explains why we don’t want to get rid of depression and anxiety altogether, and predicts a cure for the former within a lifetime.

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Martin Seligman
2018
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Helplessness: On Development, Depression, and Death

This volume demonstrates how learned helplessness develops and operates, and how it can lead to depression, anxiety, childhood failures, lack of motivation, and in extreme cases, sudden death. This is no “cure yourself” guide, but the theory Dr.

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Martin E. P. Seligman
1992
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