{"id":295,"date":"2022-03-29T07:41:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T07:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mentalhealth.digitalgrowthrevealed.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2022-03-29T07:41:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T07:41:34","slug":"how-to-cope-with-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mentalhealth.digitalgrowthrevealed.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"How To Cope With Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Su5VtKeXU8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Depression doesn&#8217;t have to ruin our lives. The most urgent thing we need to do is understand the ways in which depression is unlike sadness &#8211; and why self-understanding is the primary route to a cure.<br \/>\nSign up to our new newsletter and get 10% off your first online order of a book, product or class: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2LayJ9F<br \/>\nFor gifts and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2LygRto<br \/>\nOur website has classes, articles and products to help you lead a more fulfilled life: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2XknJN4<\/p>\n<p>FURTHER READING<\/p>\n<p>You can read more on this and other subjects on our blog, here: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2NtQKq0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost half of us will suffer from depression at some point in our lives, but the condition remains badly misunderstood and therefore often poorly treated. At the heart of our collective difficulty with depression is a confusion about what it actually is \u2013 and in particular, how it can be distinguished from a state all of us know very well and with which it is has a distracting number of similarities, namely sadness. It\u2019s because we unwittingly tend to apply to cases of depression a number of assumptions drawn from, and better suited to, an understanding of sadness that we end up suffering far more than we should\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE<\/p>\n<p>Visit us in person at our London HQ: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2XlldGq<\/p>\n<p>Watch more films on SELF in our playlist:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/TSOLself<\/p>\n<p>You can submit translations and transcripts on all of our videos here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog&amp;tab=2<br \/>\nFind out how more here: https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/6054623?hl=en-GB <\/p>\n<p>SOCIAL MEDIA<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to follow us at the links below:<\/p>\n<p>Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theschooloflifelondon\/<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSchoolOfLife<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theschooloflifelondon\/ <\/p>\n<p>CREDITS<\/p>\n<p>Produced in collaboration with:<\/p>\n<p>Nick Hilditch<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"fuerZInEor\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nickhilditch.com\/\">Work<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Work&#8221; &#8212; Nick Hilditch\" src=\"https:\/\/nickhilditch.com\/embed\/#?secret=SoYIlYAY38#?secret=fuerZInEor\" data-secret=\"fuerZInEor\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Title animation produced in collaboration with<\/p>\n<p>Vale Productions<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.valeproductions.co.uk\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depression doesn&#8217;t have to ruin our lives. 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