Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Jordan Peterson - Depression Is a Positive Feedback Loop" video.

  1. The following podcast was from an era before Jordan allowed that title Professor of Psychology and fame to "go to his head." It's down to earth and his vocabulary is not all hyped up with fancy unnecessary terminology. The Reason for Almost All Mental Illness Jordan Peterson … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW_zpi2hmI4
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  2. The following advise might be helpful to those who feel depressed. Carol Dweck taught at Columbia University and the University of Illinois, and at the time this book was published was the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. From the book … 50 Psychology Classics Second Edition: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on the mind, personality, and human nature … author … Tom Butler-Bowden Published May 30, 2017 “Yet fixed mindset people will sometimes allow a single test, such as for IQ, to define them for the rest of their lives. Those with growth mindsets see that as ridiculous.” In a study she made of university students, Dweck found that those with fixed mindsets had higher levels of depression. After Judging themselves harshly, they stopped attending classes and doing their work, and ceased looking after themselves. Depressed students with a growth mindset reacted the opposite way: the more depressed they were, the greater the effort they made to climb out of it, keeping up their classes and social life despite how they felt. Again, for the growth minded, effort is seen as the key to progress.
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