Remember "Adventures in Depression"? Well, here's "Depression Part Two." Read and share.

"Research by a French academic to be delivered to the Royal Economic Society suggests that the country's citizens are 'taught' to be miserable by elements of their own culture. Claudia Senik, a professor at the Paris School of Economics, argues that her country's education system and its cultural 'mentality' make the French far less happy than their wealth and lifestyle suggest they should be."

"[T]ravel with handsome luggage, as schlepping around a lousy, ugly, torn and/or unpractical bag is depressing."

"Earning more money tends to make people happier, at least up to a point. But new research suggests the reverse may also be true: happier people actually make more money."

20. Liquor store

19. Food truck

18. Expensive coffee chain

17. Deli

16. Trader Joe's/Whole Foods/bougie consumables emporium

15. Tech/cellphone store

14. MetroCard machine

13. ATM

12. Office supply store

11. Coffee cart

"If hamsters are anything like their human counterparts, keeping your TV or computer on at night while you sleep in the same room could not only disrupt your sleep — it could lead to clinical depression."

"A study into whether physical activity alleviates the symptoms of depression has found there is no benefit. Research published in the British Medical Journal suggests that adding a physical activity intervention to usual care did not reduce symptoms of depression more than usual care alone." —This actually makes me marginally more happy! Marginally. Oh, now it's gone.

"A new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests Americans are overdiagnosed and overtreated for depression."

Guys, I am starting to worry a little bit about Germany.

"Diego Pizzagalli spent a good chunk of 10 years at Harvard doing what most professors at elite institutions do: research. Specifically, research on depression. He's fMRI'd and EEG'd a lot of gray matter, but most of his work got stuck in the lab and never evolved into any real-world application. Then he developed something that was too good to let collect dust in the hallowed halls of academia: software that he says could help treat depression.

Now with the help of the Baltimore-based startup incubator Canterbury Road Partners, Pizzagalli is set to turn his lab invention into an app. MoodTune will be a series of simple games that when played [...]

So this is the story of how, this year, my friends pushed me in a big direction with the advice to go back into therapy, get back on medication and stabilize my life.

First, a little background: I have struggled with periods of intense depression since high school. In college, I began to seek help. After a period of prescription missteps, the diagnosis began to shift. What at first appeared to be depression complicated by anxiety issues revealed itself to be something else entirely: Bipolar disorder, with all its peaks and crashes. High clarity and uncontrollable energy followed by a plummet into days or weeks of utter despondency. I was [...]

"Walking with a slouched or despondent posture can lead to feelings of depression or decreased energy, according to new research, which notes that these feelings can be reversed by walking in a more upright position."

The Internet will keep you from being depressed, but you have to be old.

"Crushing guilt is a common symptom of depression, an observation that dates back to Sigmund Freud. Now, a new study finds a communication breakdown between two guilt-associated brain regions in people who have had depression. This so-called 'decoupling' of the regions may be why depressed people take small faux pas as evidence that they are complete failures. 'If brain areas don't communicate well, that would explain why you have the tendency to blame yourself for everything and not be able to tie that into specifics,' study researcher Roland Zahn, a neruoscientist at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, told LiveScience." —I guess this makes me feel [...]