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As I discussed last month, depression is the yin to anxiety\u2019s yang. Between these two troublemakers, they\u2019ve got dark clouds hanging over both the past and the future, making the present moment complicated at best (and for some people unbearable). Taken as a human composite, it\u2019s an unfortunate trade-off for being cognitively complex. As individuals, however, we naturally just want a solution.

The problem is, there\u2019s just so many confounding factors surrounding depression that it\u2019s hard to know where to start. Your mind is an infinitely complex latticework of moving parts; one which continues to baffle and divide the scientific community. How does a practitioner prescribe suitable treatments for\xa0a problem they don\u2019t fully comprehend? And, yet, medical science often (and perhaps inevitably) works with incomplete information.

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Leaman)