There are many good resources out there for those struggling with depression - guidebooks, memoirs, literature, etc. However, there doesn’t seem to be one place where someone could go to and find them all.
There’s no doubt about it, it’s a difficult task at hand – how to distill and package an immense amount of information into manageable form for the “average” sufferer of depression?
Still, I think it can and must be done better.
We need more creative people tackling this challenge of bringing available knowledge to the masses. And packaging this knowledge in memorable, and even entertaining ways.
I’m not sure how much time I’ll have to do this in the future (and I’m quite sure I’m not the most credible person to do this), but I promise to do my part whenever I can.
With that in mind, you will soon see my concise (and hopefully palatable and memorable, and most of all useful) reviews of “depression resources.”
And just so you know, I consider depression resources to be anything from memoirs to science textbooks to art to music to movies…and so on. I firmly believe more medical professionals involved in treating depression should be watching more movies and reading more literature and in general consuming more culture with the following frame of mind: What insights can I draw here that could help my patient/friend/family/etc overcome their depression? Hell, it might even be more useful than studying Orgo, or reading scientific papers.
Anything I stumble across that I think may be useful, I will (attempt to) recap in hip conversational form, and I’ll organize it all into the categories of this blog. Eventually, I hope to move them to an entirely separate section of the site, but that’s a task for another day…
Check back in soon for these personalized resources!
-David
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