You Risk Depression If You Keep Doing This

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekChildren, parenting, and family lifeCouples and healthy relationshipsF/Friend / friendsCHChildrenAnxiety, stress, and inner calm

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00In today's episode...
• 00:37Mistake No. 1
• 02:27Mistake No. 2
• 04:45Mistake No. 3
• 08:43What is depression?
• 10:02Causes of depression
• 13:12Mistake No. 4
• 14:19The key action to get rid of depression forever
• 17:00A daily practice against depression and apathy

Claims made here

Individual claims identified in the material: who said them, when, and what kind of thought they express. Each timestamp opens that point in the video.

• 00:21

  The reason you're depressed is not that you have no husband or wife.

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 02:32

  It doesn't matter whether you were buying coffee somewhere, at a restaurant, at work with colleagues or your own employees, with your boss or partners, with your husband or wife, girlfriend or boyfriend, children or parents.

  Alexander Volchekrecommendation

• 06:36

  The problem is that this makes you miss a huge number of opportunities.

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 10:26

  The reason you're depressed is not that you have no husband or wife.

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 10:41

  You can easily recognize this and see how people who have nothing aren't depressed, while people who seem to have everything are depressed—and another person who has everything isn't depressed.

  Alexander Volchek

• 14:03

  But not depression, because depression is a particular state a person enters and stays in for a long time. They fall into it and cannot get out, cannot take the simple actions that would get them out.

  Alexander Volchekcausedefinition

• 14:52

  Suppose you make it your daily task to truly get to know yourself, to know yourself as a person: who you are, how this world works, what its true values are, what the cause-and-effect relationships are, why these events really happen.

  Alexander Volchek

• 15:53

  Recently, I asked someone a question. I said, “Dima”—he's a close friend of mine—“listen, how is it that people live in a country where those in power constantly deceive them?” And they don't really react.

  Alexander Volchek

• 18:16

  Why are there people with ten children who aren't depressed, while someone with one child is?

  Alexander Volchekcomparison

• 19:37

  I guarantee you that every person can grow a thousandfold.

  Alexander Volchekprinciple