Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
Depression and Joy
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2016-11-07.htm
Date Written: 2016-11-07
Publisher: Connexions
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Cx Number: CX20014
It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
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Contents:
Topics of the Week: Depression and Joy
How we learned to stop having fun
Psychiatry's 'Defect Model of Mental Illness:' a Path for Those it Has Failed
The Rain on Our Parade
I fit the description...
Cities Need More Public Transit, Not More Uber and Self-Driving Cars
Securing communal land rights for Tanzania's Indigenous Peoples
Website of the Week: Existential Comics
Book of the Week: Surviving America's Depression Epidemic
Film of the Week: Gatekeeper
Organizing: Happy Activism
People's History: 1956: Hungary’s lost revolution
From the Archives: The History Thieves
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