Laura Berman Fortgang is a bestselling author, speaker, TV personality, corporate spokesperson, and Interfaith minister. She has also struggled with depression for most of her adult life. She writes that most people seem surprised when they learn of her depression, citing how positive and energetic she presents herself. Fortgang writes that depression doesn’t rule her life, though it waits just beneath the surface. Her dynamic with depression over the past twenty years has brought meaning to her life because it has taught her to be conscious of her thoughts and to choose them if she has to. She writes that even if she thinks something, she doesn’t have to believe that thought.
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