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Mrs S's avatar

I have spent most of my career doing academic research on depression and anxiety.

After interviewing hundreds of patients, it is clear to me that the root causes are lack of meaning and lack of community.

Pills and brief courses of therapy are not lasting solutions.

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Sarah Thompson's avatar

The virtual community is important, but we need to see each other, too. During the Covoodoo madness I felt distant from many old friends because, while they might not have been all-in, they weren’t “hell no what the fuck is this???” out. So I sought out groups who saw through it, and we met online and in person. Tom Woods organized meetups for his listeners and I went and it was life-changing to know, really *know*, that even if we weren’t all in Galt’s Gulch somewhere, we could create a network and a community where we didn’t have to fear that our neighbors would volunteer us for boxcars to assuage their own anxiety.

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