Is There A Healthy Way To Think About Depression?

By NPR/TED STAFF
“People are dying to talk about their experience. And a lot of what they feel is that no one else could understand.” — Andrew Solomon
“People are dying to talk about their experience. And a lot of what they feel is that no one else could understand.” — Andrew Solomon

Is There A Healthy Way To Think About Depression?

By NPR/TED STAFF
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Part 5 of the TED Radio Hour episode Headspace.

About Andrew Solomon’s TED Talk

Writer and psychologist Andrew Solomon explains how the more he talked about his depression, the more others wanted to tell their own stories.

About Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon writes about politics, culture, and psychology. His most recent book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, tells stories of parents who have children coping with deafness, Down syndrome, schizophrenia and many other challenges — and who find deep meaning in their new roles.

Solomon’s previous book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, won the 2001 National Book Award for nonfiction. Drawing from his own battle with depression, Solomon examines the illness in personal, cultural and scientific terms.

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