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  1. Dancing in the Streets
    A History of Collective Joy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    An account of the toll that depression has taken on European and North American health since the 18th century.
  2. How 7 Historic Figures Overcame Depression Without Doctors
    Drugless Antidotes

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    While Sylvia Plath and Ernest Hemingway received extensive medical treatment for depression but tragically committed suicide, other famously depressed people — including Abraham Lincoln, William James, Georgia O’Keeffe, Sigmund Freud, William Tecumseh Sherman, Franz Kafka, and the Buddha — took different paths.
  3. Mood Disorders Association of Ontario (MDAO)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
    Depression and Joy

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
  5. Surviving America's Depression Epidemic
    How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    The rate of depression in the United States has increased more than tenfold in the last fifty years, and American mental health institutions have become part of the problem rather than the solution. The good news is that age-old wisdom and legitimate science -- uncorrupted by the profit-margin pressures of pharmaceutical and insurance companies -- have much to inform us about revitalizing depressed people and a depressing culture.

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