In this week’s edition of Tranquility du Jour, I chat with Dr. Stuart Eisendrath about depression as an illness not a personal weakness, how mindfulness helps with depression, and ways that depressive moods are similar to the weather (hint: always in flux).

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Guest:

Stuart Eisendrath, MD, is the author of When Antidepressants Aren’t Enough and the founding director of the University of California San Francisco Depression Center. A senior clinician and research psychiatrist at UCSF, his lectures on mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for University of California TV have been viewed more than 1.5 million times. Visit him online at stuarteisendrath.com.

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Website: stuarteisendrath.com Facebook: facebook.com/stuarteisendrathmd/ Psychology Today: psychologytoday.com/us/blog/when-antidepressants-aren-t-enough Book: New World Library and Amazon

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