Jonathan Rottenberg, The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins Of The Depression Epidemic Quotes

My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.

Theories without data are like daydreams.

Though I learned little in my compromised state, I learned enough to make a decision: I was going to understand how mood could overwhelm. I was going to understand depression or die trying.

One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.

You know what you have to do, you just can't do it", Sara says wearily. "It's like you have bricks on your feet.

Just as a stressful life can make you depressed, continuing exposure to stressors maintains depression.

Depressed people don't end up lying in bed because they are undercommitted to goals. They end up lying in bed because they are overcommitted to goals that are failing.