FTP072: The Depression Epidemic – What You Can Do

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Today we talk about the epidemic of depression in the Western world — what causes it, and how it can be solved. We live in the most peaceful, most prosperous time in the history of humanity, and everything seems to be amazing, yet people are increasingly depressed.

To explore this topic, we start with the idea that for 99% of history, humans were hunters-gatherers and evolved to live a very different lifestyle — spending time outdoors and tightly connected to their communities. Now that we live indoors, sitting in front of a computer, not socializing or exercising sufficiently, eating processed food, our modern lifestyle is not in line with our nature, and that is the major factor of the present epidemic of depression.

In This Episode Of Future Thinkers:

• Evoking the life of our ancestors to learn more about our modern life
• Invisible stress factors from our environment that contribute to depression
• Media consumption as an important influence factor for feeling helpless and depressed
• Training ourselves to pinpoint the exact cause of our discomfort
• Increasing self-sovereignty as an important tool for overcoming depression
• 6 simple steps to alleviate depression symptoms
• The importance of daily routines and habits to shift your state

Many people take it upon themselves to fix the world problems before they fixed their own problems, without realizing how their individual problems are connected. Click To Tweet

Mentions and Resources:

• Depression is a disease of civilization: Stephen Ilardi at TEDxEmory
• 5 Reasons Modern Life Depresses People, an article by Jordan Bates
• IN-SHADOW – A Modern Odyssey, a short movie
• 7 Ways To Maximize Misery (video)
• Optimistic Nihilism (video)
• How Tony Robbins Outsmarts Depression (video)
• Jordan Peterson on how to deal with depression (video)

You have to figure out how to be very accurate with what is causing you pain and discomfort, otherwise you're going to end up fixing things that didn't need fixing in the first place. Click To Tweet

Book Recommendations:

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs by Stephen Llardi
• 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos by Jordan Peterson
• The Power of Now: A Guide To Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
• The Subconscious Mind: How To Program Your Subconscious Mind For Success And Happiness by Robert Daudish

More From Future Thinkers:

• FTP067: Becoming More Adaptive
• FTP065: Developing And Practicing Your Self-Sovereignty
• FTP038: Jordan Peterson – Failed Utopias, Mapping The Mind And Finding Meaning

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