Being Well Podcast: Depression and the Brain
Dr. Alex Korb joins us to explore the relationship between depression and the brain, including practical tools for intervening during a depressive episode.
Dr. Alex Korb joins us to explore the relationship between depression and the brain, including practical tools for intervening during a depressive episode.
This episode explores some tools and strategies that people with bipoloar disorder can use to help themselves or their loved ones manage symptoms.
On this episode we focus on a subset of the depressed mood states including bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic depressive.
In this second part on depression and depressed mood, we turn our focus onto some of the tactics and strategies people can use, both in their own mind and out in the world, to help manage a depressed mood.
Today’s episode explores what depression is, where it comes from, and how it differs from sadness.
There’s endless advice out there about how to become happier, but most of it is anecdotal in nature. That’s why we’re so happy to be being joined today by one of the leading researchers on the scientific study of human happiness: Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky.