Video #39 Nine Positive Role Models with Mood Disorders

In this video, I highlight nine extraordinary individuals, four from the past and five from the present, who have struggled with mood disorders. At the same time, for each person, I include something that they’ve done with help bring them out of their depressed state. For Lincoln, it was his reciting sad songs and poems, for Tennessee Williams, it was swimming, for Winston Churchill, bricklaying and water color painting, for Angelina Jolie, her humanitarian work, for Selena Gomez, time spent with her younger sister. Comedian Jim Carrey says that instead of ”de-pressed” we should engage in ”deep rest” as relief from our everyday persona. These little things don’t replace medications and therapy, but they represent unique responses to these individuals’ biochemical neurodivergencies.