How do we accurately identify and address the sources of our depression when it's not

an obvious concern like lack of money or friends?

You know Pete, I think that the source of the depression is never the source, right?

It is often, there's a source beneath the source.

Like the lack of money is not actually what's causing me to be depressed.

I know this from personal experience.

I grew up really poor and thought we were unhappy growing up because we didn't have money.

And so of course when I went out my 20s and climbed the corporate ladder and started making

really good money, I was in a way even more depressed because money simply amplified

the habits and behaviors that were going on before the money, right?

And so there was something else beneath the lack of money.

The other one was what lack of friends, right?

Well sometimes you can be surrounded by all the friends that are making you miserable

or depressed.

And so that's not the answer either.

It seems to me there's always some sort of lie behind the what?

Yes.

And locating that is very difficult.

This is why, right?

This is my critique by the way of too much drugs and meditation.

I'm not against drugs and meditation, but when they're used as a way to somehow access

the deeper part of yourself, I, again, I'm not even against that so much, but here's

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