Jonathan Rottenberg Quotes

#1. Forgas and his colleagues have demonstrated diverse benefits of a sad mood. It can improve memory performance, reduce errors in judgment, make people slightly better at detecting deception in others, and foster more effective interpersonal strategies, such as increasing the politeness of requests.

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

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#3. Rather than assuming weakness or defectiveness, we should acknowledge that getting through depression requires considerable strength. Rather than assuming permanent debility, we should recognize that some depressions are followed by thriving.

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#4. Theories without data are like daydreams.

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#5. As she lay awake, she reminded herself that she was beating the depression; she was winning her life back. She had survived, and now she was going to be better than ever before.

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

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#7. My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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