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Is There a Legitimate Response to Anxiety and Depression?
Jeffrey Toobin: Can suffering lead to greater meaning or other types of suffering that maybe just can't be translated into sort of the building up of a sense of meaning of life? Toobin: I think there are certainly some that are probably refractory to that, right? We have testimony from people who have undergone tremendous suffering that they were able to find meaning from it. He says we ought not to discount the possibility that we're depressed because the world is depressing.Toobin: It's difficult to sort of say a pre-or I; all types of suffering are potentially interpretable as contributing to meaning or none are.