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When Life Gets You Down: Coping with Situational Depression

By Chris Iliades, MD — 2015

When a stressful situation is particularly hard to cope with, we react with symptoms of sadness, fear, or even hopelessness — a type of reaction that’s often referred to as situational depression. Unlike major depression, when you are overwhelmed by depression symptoms for a long time, situational depression usually goes away once you have adapted to your new situation.

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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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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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