Hi everybody. Welcome to the Women's Dating and Confidence Podcast. My name is Amber, and today I have a very

special episode for you. I interviewed author, neuroscientist, and psychologist, Dr. Stephen Allardy.

He wrote one of my all-time favorite books called The Depression Cure, and he cured my

depression with that book. And I do talk a little bit about that, of course, in the interview

that's going to be following.

But one thing I did just want to clarify before we get into things is that my depression was really severe when I found his book.

And I had tried many solutions that didn't work for me or didn't work long term.

And I was at the point where I was severely depressed, suicidal, and felt debilitated by depression.

And at the same time, I don't think a lot of people around me could tell.

And so one thing I really wanted to clarify before we get into this is, first of all, I've

never been so happy in my life so consistently for such a long time.

And I just think that's really important to say because when I was depressed and seeking out solutions,

there was this weird feeling of like, first of all, looking at healthy, happy people and thinking they're lying.

Like, thinking like, nobody's like actually happy, right?

Like, we all kind of hate being here.

And secondarily, just generally thinking it wasn't

really possible for people to recover or heal from depression. Like, I felt like I didn't get a lot of

exposure to people who fully recovered from depression. It was more like, yeah, I was depressed and now I'm taking

medication, but I'm still kind of fighting it and keeping it at bay every day. And so that was the

common theme that I heard. And I didn't get a lot of exposure to stories of people completely

healing from depression and just feeling normal and content and having normal

emotional reactions to things, which is how I feel now. So I, first of all, if you're depressed,

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