The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So whether or not you have a genetic predisposition to depression or not, one of the best things you can do to try and avoid getting depressed is to learn to control your stress system, to not go from short-term stress, which everybody experiences, we all have short-term stressors, to medium term stress to long-term stress, and to not have too many bouts of long-term stress because that probability of getting depressed goes way, way up.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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So learning how to control your stress is really key. If you're not depressed or you're somebody that has not lapsed into a depression recently, take control of your stress system.