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You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for h...
MATT HAIG

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
MARIO BATALI Well you know how some people have cancer in their family and some have heart disease. My family was...
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No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.
VIKRAM PATEL Depression is devastating, and there is no shame in getting treatment.
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No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
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EVA OBARZANEK It really is a great drug for heart disease.
C. MICHAEL WHITE The center itself contains almost every diagnostic and treatment tool available for comprehensive ca...
DOUG LAWSON Very often the animal models that exist for a particular disease really don't authentically replicat...
EVAN SNYDER

We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less acc...
RICHARD EYRE For depression, there is no single medication or therapy that has been found to work as a primary tr...
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depression, which can be as serious a medical affair as diabetes or cancer.
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