Thanks for sharing! I found this paragraph in particular incredibly amazing:

"According to Ilardi, the answer lies in the dynamics of our culture and how our roles as humans have changed over generations. Speaking more in terms of Americans, we have turned our backs on the “hunter-gatherer” tendencies that humanity was based on. Mentioned many times throughout The Depression Cure is the modern-day hunter-gatherer band known as the Kaluli people of the New Guinea highlands, where “clinical depression is almost completely nonexistent.” Their culture still works as a cohesive unit of purpose, for survival. They obtain their physical activity through hunting and gathering, are constantly exposed to the outdoors and the elements, abide by a strict diet based on seasonal availability, and are never alone due to their constant involvement with their community. The Kaluli people lived the steps of Ilardi’s TLC program, and because of that lifestyle, depression was rarely an issue."

I know the solution: gardening. Community gardening. Imagine if we moved away from our current competitive, corporate driven capitalist society by growing our own food, becoming more localized and tending to each other's needs rather than competing against each other for shallow gains. Gardening has been said to greatly help cure depression. Working with nature, exercising outdoors, breathing fresh air. In fact, not only would this help us all, but it's becoming important to do so because of climate change. In so many ways, environmentally, socially, economically, politically, our current society is collapsing. It's becoming more and more apparent day by day. Our job is to figure out how to live differently. Indigenous cultures have it right. Maybe we would be better by following their example.