Well, it's not a chemical imbalance and it may not all be in your head.

Hi, I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green, this episode of Right Angle, brought

to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com.

Gentlemen, I've picked up a story, I believe that was kind of consolidated at the Federalist.com

about a depression remedy, according to a study from Ohio State University that got published in

the journal for positive psychology this month.

And here it is.

Doing nice things for others may actually help people with depression and anxiety feel better

about themselves.

Now this is just the tip of the iceberg, and there's one other element here that kind of

surprised me when I dug a little bit deeper.

And by the way, I do not pretend to be a doctor here or on TV, And so please ignore anything that might sound like advice here

and use your own best judgment. But what the study found was that they kind of used to think that

the way to get out of depression was to get into social situations. So if you could get into,

you know, go to parties or go to places where friends are or go to Starbucks, as we found in another episode of Right Angle this week, that's no longer wanting to be a place like this.

But you could go and hang out with people and that would make you feel better about yourself.

However, according to this study, and it's a relatively small-scale study, but it seems

well grounded, and I'm quoting here, it's not enough to just be around other people participating

in social activities, according to the co-author of the dissertation that this study is based on.

There is something specific about performing acts of kindness,

things that make other people feel happy or feel good.

And this comes on the heels of another study from a year or two ago

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