Essentially, your brain is full of intricate, interacting neural circuits. There’s a worrying circuit and a habit circuit. There’s a decision-making circuit and a pain circuit. There are circuits for sleep, memory, mood, planning, enjoyment, and more, and they all communicate with each other. We’ve all got the same circuits, whether you have depression or not, though the specific tuning of each circuit varies from person to person. The disease of depression is a pattern of activity that arises from the interactions of all these circuits. While that might not sound like much, the effects can be
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