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14 Diagnosis DepressionandLife If Buddhism is correct and all life amounts to suffering, depression can become endemic only in cultures that do not have at their core a philosophy that takes this simple truth not only into account but as a foundation. What in lands far, far away from my house makes life so livable is the serene knowledge that it is unlivable. Depression, I believe, results from the tension between that knowledge and a stubborn resistance to it. ...

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