Four Zen Truths About Depression

Andrew R. French
9 min readDec 9, 2019

“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.”
― Shunryu Suzuki

I had a severe depressive episode after one of my best friends committed suicide.

I was feeling extremely bad. Anxiety, stress, high levels of unhappiness and loneliness, and that aching feeling of never being able to…

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Andrew R. French

Writer at the Intersection of Earth Science and Culture