# Depression, the secret we share

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxMet
- Speaker: Andrew Solomon
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_solomon_depression_the_secret_we_share)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

"The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment." In a talk equal parts eloquent and devastating, writer Andrew Solomon takes you to the darkest corners of his mind during the years he battled depression. That led him to an eye-opening journey across the world to interview others with depression -- only to discover that, to his surprise, the more he talked, the more people wanted to tell their own stories.

## Lectures

1. [Depression, the secret we share](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/andrew_solomon_depression_the_secret_we_share/ac919f4ba58e), 30 min (TED's player)