# A few thoughts on depression

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Noah Smith]]
- Full Title: A few thoughts on depression
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/a-few-thoughts-on-depression

## Highlights
- The narratives that we construct for ourselves are mostly bullshit. We construct them out of a need to make sense of the world, not as rational scientific theories that best fit the available data.