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Why we love, why we cheat

Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic – love – and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closes with a warning about the potential disaster inherent in antidepressant abuse.

The brain in love

“One thing I would like the medical community, and the legal community, and even the college community, to see if they can understand, that indeed, romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.”
Helen Fisher

Confessions of a depressed comic

In this brave and honest talk, Kevin Breel shared his story, the story of how a popular student who seemingly had it all together thought about taking his own life. If someone in your life suffers from depression, you need to watch this video. If you don’t think anyone in your life suffers from depression, you need to watch this video because you may not realize it if they do.

“Real depression isn’t being sad when something in your life goes wrong, real depression is being sad when everything in your life is going right. That’s real depression, and that’s what I suffer from.”