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Podcast: Meaningful Life Skills with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Episode: Spirituality and Depression: Adding Spirituality to Traditional Treatment
Description: What is depression? Why do we get depressed? And what can we do about it? Many answers have been posited to these pressing questions, with suggested interventions ranging from medication to therapy, and various alternative methods. What has been less explored are the spiritual roots of depression. After all, a soulless body does not get depressed. Is depression a spiritual or physical malady? How does spirituality impact depression and can a heightened spiritual life help decrease depression?
Please join Rabbi Jacobson as he dissects the DNA of depression and the core of the soul, seeking to identify w...