The Last Shaman is a haunting documentary that takes us from Phillips-Andover, the elite, Massachusetts prep school, to the Amazon (and Ayahuasca) and back. James (Freeman) falls ill with depression as a teenager and cannot escape its grip... #documentary #depression

With two people with the same disease why may one fare very differently from the other? Why can one recover and build a good life, even if with residual symptoms, while another remains impaired and beset with suffering as a primary mode of living? #depression #daphnemerkin #ThisClosetoHappy