Positive Psychology: Stanford's Robert Sapolsky On Depression

Friday, November 16, 2018

Stanford's Robert Sapolsky On Depression

Stanford's Robert Sapolsky On Depression

Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky, posits that depression is the most
damaging disease that you can experience.

Right now it is the number
four cause of disability in the US and it is becoming more common.

Sapolsky states that depression is as real of a biological disease as is
diabetes.

Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

(edited for improved sound: noise and stereo issues, and miscellaneous
parts taken out)

Link: https://youtu.be/TIcf-2AFHgw

Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."