I really liked the ending part. I feel that way too a lot of the times.
"If you are depressed and anxious, you are not a machine with malfunctioning parts. You are a human being with unmet needs. The only real way out of our epidemic of despair is for all of us, together, to begin to meet those human needs – for deep connection, to the things that really matter in life."
Just like you can't shoot one hormone or take one drug and not expect something else to get imbalanced. We're not robots. Although society would prefer that at times... And some of us deaden ourselves, rendering us emotionless in order to meet our responsibilities and to numb the pain, with self-medication (alcohol, drugs, sex, movies, tv, bad food -- whatever a person's vices are). And of course many here become emotionally numb bc of post-drug disorders. And the disenfranchisement of the psychopharma industry and the parallel industry of which Accutane and Finasteride are a part of.
Choosing to work in fields that we actually like and that are helpful to others are antidepressants in and of themselves.
At the heart of many people's diagnosed "disorders" is a lack of self-esteem. Not all of them, and it's not always so simple. I've seen it both ways myself. I've also been ultraconfident but still "different".
But my first anxiety dx, was partially but not only related to self-esteem.
