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Depression in Robert Sapolsky talk is defined as a sliding scale of the inability to recover from the feeling of loss. Some types of inability should be targeted with the intention to cure, while others is more about building defenses and addressing how people react to life events. Both talks seems to agree that a multidimensional viewpoint should be applied depending on the patient situation.

The goal should be to cure depression in cases where we can cure it, in the similar way that we should cure the inability to walk in individuals when we have the technology to do so. A big point brought up in the video is that the medical understanding of the ability to recover from loss is still very much in the infancy when it comes to depressions. Our understanding of a physical leg and what makes a person unable to walk is pretty decent in comparison, and so there isn't as large debate between when to use medicine and when to use exercise and life adjustments.