• 1What Is Depression? (VIDEO)
  • 2Treating Depression
  • 3What Makes You Unique?
  • 4Your Brain Is Electric
  • 5Depression and Neurotransmitters
  • 6Emotions and Your Brain
  • 7Losing Your Balance
  • 8Forms of Depression
  • 9Symptoms and Diagnosis
  • 10Causes of Depression
  • 11Depression and Pain
  • 12Depression Changes the Brain
  • 13The Depression Cascade
  • 14Finding Balance
  • 15Talk Therapy
  • 16Movement as Medicine
  • 17Managing Stress and Making Choices
  • 18Food for a Better Mood
  • 19Get Some Sleep
  • 20Treatment: Antidepressants
  • 21Treatment: ECT and VNS
  • 22There Is Hope
CHAPTER 14

Finding Balance

PART 1

Getting Better

If you have depression, you may blame yourself and think that somehow you caused this condition or should be able to pull yourself out of it. But being depressed is not a failure on your part. You are not to blame for it, and you aren’t weak because you can’t “just snap out of it.” Depression is a disease—and like many other diseases, it responds to treatment. Many different forms of treatment are available. The key is to find balance: balance in your life, and the right balance of depression treatments.
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