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Sometimes the very decision on what to talk about here at SelfWork seems difficult, as the possibilities are endless really. And since May is Mental Health Awareness Month, I wanted to do something special \\u2013 although any month is mental health awareness month for me! To help get me organized, I turned to an old teacher of mine who\\u2019s an internationally known expert on depression - Dr. Michael Yapko. I listened into one of his YouTube presentations on the current research in depression and what the best thinking is about its causes and its treatment. He mentions the five most common mental mistakes that can lead to depression or to a relapse.

So, this month in May, I\\u2019m going to present those to you; \\xa0I\\u2019ll add in some of my own experiences and stories so that hopefully you can try and see if you\\u2019re making any of those mistakes \\u2013 whether or not you consider yourself \\u201cdepressed\\u201d or not.

For the listener email \\xa0\\u201cresponse\\u201d this week, I\\u2019m going to comment on a review for SelfWork that was left on Apple \\u2013 a kind of, \\u201cI was really looking forward to listening but got disappointed,\\u201d kind of review. I\\u2019m hoping to address what I thought were the listener\\u2019s comments \\u2013 as I could very well see what had disappointed them. So, I dug a little deeper and will let you know what I found.

Nick Wignall\'s Medium post on resilience

Several links to research articles having to do with minority happiness factors:

Article on black white differences and happiness\\xa0

Article on role of discrimination and ethnic identification

Article on racial identity and happiness

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