They view this not as a true disorder but as some kind of weakness of character, and if only they could just pull themselves up by their bootstraps they would be fine.

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There's another factor that we don't often think about, and that's the frequent travel, the jumping across time zones, jet lag. We know that disruption in sleep-wake cycles is another precipitant for depression.

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They drive themselves inordinately more than other individuals do.

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They unfortunately depicted ECT in a barbaric, primitive and completely unrealistic view.

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So they tend not to take as good care of themselves, both physically and psychologically, and in the end that takes a toll.

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ECT works in many patients in which anti-depressants don't work, ... ECT works faster than anti-depressants, and after 40 years we still don't know exactly how it works.

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