A personal reflection (YouTube talk) in which the speaker describes struggling with depression during medical school, undertaking active searching—reading, therapy, self-questioning—and gradually recovering by challenging beliefs of being "not good enough". Emphasizes continual searching and psychological growth ('peel the onion') as key to overcoming one hurdle of depression.
Keep searching. I've dealt with depression of course I come out at the other side winning. But I remember actually in medical school that's when I felt very down to the point where I thought I don't think I will ever be happy again. I just don't see how because I was stuck in my way of looking at the world because I thought I wasn't good enough. You have to get over that gear but you don't get over it if you don't keep searching. So I kept searching, I kept reading books, went to a psychologist. I debated with him why I wasn't good enough. He told me why I was. We were fighting it out. Then eventually he made me see like why are we here? Who gave you the idea that you weren't like what's good enough? You have to peel the onion. So eventually you get over that. And that's one hurdle. Psychological hurdle is one.
