Hey everyone, welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hansen. If you're new to the show,

thanks for joining us today. And if you've listened before, welcome back.

Today we're going to be exploring a huge topic,

depression and depressed mood,

and particularly what we can do to break out of a pattern of depressed mood.

There is plenty of good advice out there when it comes to dealing with depression

because it's such a big and important topic.

All these different ways we can think or change our circumstances in our social environments or maybe even changing something like our diet or exercising a little bit more.

Now, these can all be useful interventions and we will

certainly talk about them or at least most of them to some extent today and if you

can do them they will probably help you. But what makes depressed moods so

challenging is that they attack our ability to do anything about them.

Depression steps our energy, it's demotivating, and as we'll talk about it can actually

change how we view the world itself, which then leads to more of the thoughts and feelings that then feed our depressed mood.

So there's clearly a lot here. It's a tangled knot and to help me try to figure out how to untie it today

I'm joined as usual by clinical psychologist Dr Rick Hansen. So dad how are you doing today?

I'm good.

And if you look at findings from, for example,

the World Health Organization,

Depression, he is very, very widespread

throughout the entire world.

And it has all kinds of consequences besides sort of ruining how you feel.

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