TED演讲有感-这可能是你抑郁或焦虑的原因

~ 我个人非常喜欢的一个Talk。

一些我觉得讲的重点或者是有感的点加了标粗斜杠或者单独引用了出来。

建议一边听着音频一边看着以下原稿读。

演讲链接：https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_this_could_be_why_you_re_depressed_or_anxious

The Speaker：Johann Hari · Journalist （Johann Hari is the author of two "New York Times" best-selling books.）

The Talk Title：This could be why you are depressed or anxious

When I was a teenager, I remember going to my doctor and explaining that I had this feeling, like pain was leaking out of me. I couldn't control it, I didn't understand why it was happening, I felt quite ashamed of it.

My doctor said, "We know why people get like this. Some people just naturally get a chemical imbalance in their heads -- you're clearly one of them. All we need to do is give you some drugs, it will get your chemical balance back to normal ."

So I started taking a drug called Paxil or Seroxat, it's the same thing with different names in different countries. And I felt much better, I got a real boost. But not very long afterwards, this feeling of pain started to come back. So I was given higher and higher doses until, for 13 years, I was taking the maximum possible dose that you're legally allowed to take . And for a lot of those 13 years, and pretty much all the time by the end, I was still in a lot of pain. And I started asking myself, "What's going on here? Because you're doing everything you're told to do by the story that's dominating the culture -- why do you still feel like this?" 

But I think at the heart of what I learned is, so far, we have scientific evidence for nine different causes of depression and anxiety. Two of them are indeed in our biology. Your genes can make you more sensitive to these problems, though they don't write your destiny. And there are real brain changes that can happen when you become depressed that can make it harder to get out. But most of the factors that have been proven to cause depression and anxiety are not in our biology. They are factors in the way we live. And once you understand them, it opens up a very different set of solutions that should be offered to people alongside the option of chemical antidepressants.

For example, if you're lonely, you're more likely to become depressed. If, when you go to work, you don't have any control over your job, you've just got to do what you're told, you're more likely to become depressed. If you very rarely get out into the natural world, you're more likely to become depressed.

And one thing unites a lot of the causes of depression and anxiety that I learned about. Not all of them, but a lot of them. Everyone here knows you've all got natural physical needs, right? Obviously. You need food, you need water, you need shelter, you need clean air. If I took those things away from you, you'd all be in real trouble, real fast. But at the same time, every human being has natural psychological needs . You need to feel you belong. You need to feel your life has meaning and purpose. You need to feel that people see you and value you. You need to feel you've got a future that makes sense.  

And this culture we built is good at lots of things. And many things are better than in the past -- I'm glad to be alive today. But we've been getting less and less good at meeting these deep, underlying psychological needs. And it's not the only thing that's going on, but I think it's the key reason why this crisis keeps rising and rising. And I found this really hard to absorb. 

And it only really began to fall into place for me when one day, I went to interview a South African psychiatrist named Dr. Derek Summerfield. He's a great guy. And Dr. Summerfield happened to be in Cambodia in 2001, when they first introduced chemical antidepressants for people in that country. And the local doctors, the Cambodians, had never heard of these drugs, so they were like, what are they? And he explained. And they said to him, " We don't need them, we've already got antidepressants. " And he was like, "What do you mean?" He thought they were going to talk about some kind of herbal remedy, like St. John's Wort, ginkgo biloba, something like that. Instead, they told him a story.

If you'd been raised to think about depression the way I was, and most of the people here were, that sounds like a bad joke, right? "I went to my doctor for an antidepressant, she gave me a cow." But what those Cambodian doctors knew intuitively, based on this individual, unscientific anecdote, is what the leading medical body in the world, the World Health Organization, has been trying to tell us for years, based on the best scientific evidence.

If you're depressed, if you're anxious, you're not weak, you're not crazy, you're not, in the main, a machine with broken parts. You're a human being with unmet needs. And it's just as important to think here about what those Cambodian doctors and the World Health Organization are not saying. They did not say to this farmer, "Hey, buddy, you need to pull yourself together. It's your job to figure out and fix this problem on your own." On the contrary, what they said is, " We're here as a group to pull together with you, so together, we can figure out and fix this problem. " This is what every depressed person needs, and it's what every depressed person deserves.

This is why one of the leading doctors at the United Nations, in their official statement for World Health Day, couple of years back in 2017, said we need to talk less about chemical imbalances and more about the imbalances in the way we live . Drugs give real relief to some people -- they gave relief to me for a while -- but precisely because this problem goes deeper than their biology, the solutions need to go much deeper, too.

But when I first learned that, I remember thinking, "OK, I could see all the scientific evidence, I read a huge number of studies, I interviewed a huge number of the experts who were explaining this," but I kept thinking, "How can we possibly do that?" The things that are making us depressed are in most cases more complex than what was going on with this Cambodian farmer. Where do we even begin with that insight?

But then, in the long journey for my book, all over the world, I kept meeting people who were doing exactly that, from Sydney, to San Francisco, to São Paulo. I kept meeting people who were understanding the deeper causes of depression and anxiety and, as groups, fixing them. Obviously, I can't tell you about all the amazing people I got to know and wrote about, or all of the nine causes of depression and anxiety that I learned about, because they won't let me give a 10-hour TED Talk -- you can complain about that to them.

But I want to focus on two of the causes and two of the solutions that emerge from them, if that's alright. Here's the first. We are the loneliest society in human history. There was a recent study that asked Americans, "Do you feel like you're no longer close to anyone?" And 39 percent of people said that described them. "No longer close to anyone." In the international measurements of loneliness, Britain and the rest of Europe are just behind the US, in case anyone here is feeling smug.

I spent a lot of time discussing this with the leading expert in the world on loneliness, an incredible man named professor John Cacioppo, who was at Chicago, and I thought a lot about one question his work poses to us. Professor Cacioppo asked, " Why do we exist? Why are we here, why are we alive? " One key reason is that our ancestors on the savannas of Africa were really good at one thing. They weren't bigger than the animals they took down a lot of the time, they weren't faster than the animals they took down a lot of the time, but they were much better at banding together into groups and cooperating. This was our superpower as a species -- we band together, just like bees evolved to live in a hive, humans evolved to live in a tribe . And we are the first humans ever to disband our tribes. And it is making us feel awful. But it doesn't have to be this way.

One of the heroes in my book, and in fact, in my life, is a doctor named Sam Everington. He's a general practitioner in a poor part of East London, where I lived for many years. And Sam was really uncomfortable, because he had loads of patients coming to him with terrible depression and anxiety. And like me, he's not opposed to chemical antidepressants, he thinks they give some relief to some people. But he could see two things. Firstly, his patients were depressed and anxious a lot of the time for totally understandable reasons, like loneliness. And secondly, although the drugs were giving some relief to some people, for many people, they didn't solve the problem. The underlying problem. One day, Sam decided to pioneer a different approach. A woman came to his center, his medical center, called Lisa Cunningham. I got to know Lisa later. And Lisa had been shut away in her home with crippling depression and anxiety for seven years. And when she came to Sam's center, she was told, "Don't worry, we'll carry on giving you these drugs, but we're also going to prescribe something else. We're going to prescribe for you to come here to this center twice a week to meet with a group of other depressed and anxious people, not to talk about how miserable you are, but to figure out something meaningful you can all do together so you won't be lonely and you won't feel like life is pointless ."

This approach is called social prescribing , it's spreading all over Europe. And there's a small, but growing body of evidence suggesting it can produce real and meaningful falls in depression and anxiety.

And one day, I remember standing in the garden that Lisa and her once-depressed friends had built -- it's a really beautiful garden -- and having this thought, it's very much inspired by a guy called professor Hugh Mackay in Australia. I was thinking, so often when people feel down in this culture, what we say to them -- I'm sure everyone here said it, I have -- we say, " You just need to be you, be yourself. " And I've realized, actually, what we should say to people is, " Don't be you. Don't be yourself. Be us, be we. Be part of a group. "

The solution to these problems does not lie in drawing more and more on your resources as an isolated individual -- that's partly what got us in this crisis. It lies on reconnecting with something bigger than you.

And that really connects to one of the other causes of depression and anxiety that I wanted to talk to you about. So everyone knows junk food has taken over our diets and made us physically sick. I don't say that with any sense of superiority, I literally came to give this talk from McDonald's. I saw all of you eating that healthy TED breakfast, I was like no way. But just like junk food has taken over our diets and made us physically sick, a kind of junk values have taken over our minds and made us mentally sick . For thousands of years, philosophers have said, 

That's not an exact quote from Schopenhauer, but that is the gist of what he said.

But weirdly, hardy anyone had scientifically investigated this, until a truly extraordinary person I got to know, named professor Tim Kasser, who's at Knox College in Illinois, and he's been researching this for about 30 years now. And his research suggests several really important things. 

And as I thought about this, I realized it's like we've all been fed since birth, a kind of KFC for the soul. We've been trained to look for happiness in all the wrong places, and just like junk food doesn't meet your nutritional needs and actually makes you feel terrible, junk values don't meet your psychological needs, and they take you away from a good life . 

But when I first spent time with professor Kasser and I was learning all this, I felt a really weird mixture of emotions. Because on the one hand, I found this really challenging. I could see how often in my own life, when I felt down, I tried to remedy it with some kind of show-offy, grand external solution. And I could see why that did not work well for me. I also thought, isn't this kind of obvious? Isn't this almost like banal, right? If I said to everyone here, none of you are going to lie on your deathbed and think about all the shoes you bought and all the retweets you got, you're going to think about moments of love, meaning and connection in your life. I think that seems almost like a cliché. But I kept talking to professor Kasser and saying, "Why am I feeling this strange doubleness?" 

And he said, "At some level, we all know these things. But in this culture, we don't live by them." We know them so well they've become clichés, but we don't live by them. I kept asking why, why would we know something so profound, but not live by it ? And after a while, professor Kasser said to me, "Because we live in a machine that is designed to get us to neglect what is important about life." I had to really think about that. 

And professor Kasser wanted to figure out if we can disrupt that machine. He's done loads of research into this; I'll tell you about one example, and I really urge everyone here to try this with their friends and family. With a guy called Nathan Dungan, he got a group of teenagers and adults to come together for a series of sessions over a period of time, to meet up. And part of the point of the group was to get people to think about a moment in their life they had actually found meaning and purpose. For different people, it was different things. For some people, it was playing music, writing, helping someone -- I'm sure everyone here can picture something, right? And part of the point of the group was to get people to ask, "OK, how could you dedicate more of your life to pursuing these moments of meaning and purpose, and less to, I don't know, buying crap you don't need, putting it on social media and trying to get people to go, 'OMG, so jealous!'"

And what they found was, just having these meetings, it was like a kind of Alcoholics Anonymous for consumerism, right? Getting people to have these meetings, articulate these values, determine to act on them and check in with each other, led to a marked shift in people's values. It took them away from this hurricane of depression-generating messages training us to seek happiness in the wrong places, and towards more meaningful and nourishing values that lift us out of depression.

But with all the solutions that I saw and have written about, and many I can't talk about here, I kept thinking, you know: Why did it take me so long to see these insights? Because when you explain them to people -- some of them are more complicated, but not all -- when you explain this to people, it's not like rocket science, right? At some level, we already know these things. Why do we find it so hard to understand? I think there's many reasons. But I think one reason is that we have to change our understanding of what depression and anxiety actually are. There are very real biological contributions to depression and anxiety. But if we allow the biology to become the whole picture, as I did for so long, as I would argue our culture has done pretty much most of my life, what we're implicitly saying to people is, and this isn't anyone's intention, but what we're implicitly saying to people is, 

We feel this way for reasons, and they can be hard to see in the throes of depression -- I understand that really well from personal experience. But with the right help, we can understand these problems and we can fix these problems together. But to do that, the very first step is we have to stop insulting these signals by saying they're a sign of weakness, or madness or purely biological, except for a tiny number of people.  

以其他角度看到焦虑症和抑郁症，看了几次每次看完感想都颇多，但是感觉都不及原视频讲的好。

全文我最喜欢的几句话：

"Don't be you. Don't be yourself. Be us, be we. Be part of a group."

Because we live in a machine that is designed to get us to neglect what is important about life." 

I was only able to start changing my life when I realized your depression is not a malfunction. It's a signal. Your depression is a signal. It's telling you something. 

在 TED 演讲中，John Torous 分享了数字时代如何影响心理健康的观点。他认为，数字技术给我们带来了便利，但也可能成为我们抑郁和焦虑的来源。
John Torous 指出，数字技术使得我们容易沉迷于社交媒体、游戏或其他应用程序，从而导致时间管理困难、睡眠不足和社交隔离等问题。此外，社交媒体上的负面言论、虚假信息和其他不良内容可能会影响我们的情绪和自尊心，增加我们的抑郁和焦虑症状。
他还提到了数字时代如何增加社交孤立感，因为人们现在更多地使用社交媒体而不是面对面交流。这可能导致孤独感和心理健康问题的加剧。
为了避免数字时代的心理健康问题，John Torous 建议我们需要注意使用数字技术的时间和方式，并寻求帮助和支持。这可以包括与家人、朋友或专业人士交流，使用应用程序来帮助我们管理时间，以及更加关注我们的心理健康。
总之，数字技术给我们带来了很多便利，但我们也应该警惕它们可能对我们的心理健康带来的负面影响。我们应该注意管理我们的时间和睡眠，并寻求帮助和支持，以保持我们的心理健康。

---

察哈尔右翼后旗18773268792： ted演讲主要内容和感想100到150个字 - ？
拱战畅邦： 创意人包益民先生在TED大会上的演讲,虽然只有短短的18分钟,但是演讲内容十分精辟的阐述了设计行业现状、可持续发展以及设计师思维转变的问题,自我感觉有很多共鸣的地方,也使我颇受启发.作为设计工作者,我们大部分总是在给...

察哈尔右翼后旗18773268792： TED演讲:抑郁症究竟有多可怕 - ？
拱战畅邦： 在这次深刻而颠覆性地演讲中, 作家安德鲁·所罗门Andrew Solomon将我们带入了他与抑郁抗争的那段日子中.抑郁的反面不是快乐,而是活力.现在,所罗门的生活充满活力,即便有时会悲伤,也充满活力.

察哈尔右翼后旗18773268792： 求一篇关于杨澜ted演讲的观后感,英文文章,是观后感,英语写的哈.急求...谢谢啦. - ？
拱战畅邦： 啧啧,这年头连杨澜都批不得了吗?!╮(╯▽╰)╭ 1.英语口语水平和演讲水平不能划等号,这演讲题目太大内容太空,结构松散是不争的事实.TED上多的是带较重口音的演讲人,内容比这好的大有人在,更何况,从这场来看,杨澜的英语,...

察哈尔右翼后旗18773268792： TED 哪个演讲最打动你? - ？
拱战畅邦： TED的演讲给我很多启发,甚至改变了我对人生的一些看法. 大多数优秀的演讲已经在上面的答案中给出,我仅列举一些我觉得很好而且前面没有提到的演讲. 1, Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability 布琳.布朗: 脆弱的力量 Brené Brown: ...

察哈尔右翼后旗18773268792： 关于Ted演讲观后感,演讲视频是'谈猪如何使世界运转'求观后感.800字以上, - ？
拱战畅邦：[答案] v

察哈尔右翼后旗18773268792： 做事心不在焉,身体不舒服,是抑郁症还是焦虑症 - ？
拱战畅邦： 这即不是抑郁症,也不是焦虑症,可能是亚健康或神经衰弱的问题,你可以对照一下抑郁症和焦虑症的症状,看一下自己是否是抑郁症或焦虑症. 一、抑郁症的症状主要是以下几方面: 1、情感低落:常表现为愁眉不展,心烦意乱,自我评价过...