Good evening, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again with our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

Another fun week talking with so many people. I really am humbled and appreciate the confidence that you have in myself and Julie in trusting us with our clinical knowledge, practical experience, clinical expertise.

I really enjoyed doing this program and never thought it would reach the magnitude that it has so much appreciation. For a lot of

guys who follow this program know that I do this very organically.

I don't plan on what I'm going to talk about.

And it's ironic the topic that I haven't going to talk about comes at this time of year.

For those of us in the United States, we've just come off the season of Thanksgiving.

And for most of the world, depending on different religious affiliations, we're entering into the holiday season, whether that's Christmas, whether that's Hanukkah, whether that's Kwanza, other holidays of celebration moving into the new year.

Today's topic is depression.

And one of the main reasons of starting this podcast was to demystify mental health and to give

it a face, give it a sense of legitimacy, a level of

parity with medical conditions like diabetes, autoimmune disorders, epileptiform activity,

which is seizure disorder. So depression is probably one of the most common, commonly diagnosed

psychiatric conditions affecting a vast majority of individuals, children, adolescents, adults,

a geriatric population.

There's a great website I would encourage you guys to take a look at.

It's called the Real Depression Project.

And the reason I encourage it, Julie actually found it.

And to get a chance to look at the quotes posted by a lot of individuals struggling with various forms of depression, I think they do a really good job of shedding that, you know,

I can give you the neuropsych perspective and all the clinical terminology and the diagnostic piece. But I think

this, this website really is a great way if you don't understand if you are depressed, if your

child is depressed, if your spouse, parent, partner, whatever, again, it's called the real

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