Engaging with depression and anxiety as network effects rather than latent causes seems, anecdotally, to be productive. In my experience, the very networkiness

Engaging with depression and anxiety as network effects rather than latent causes seems, anecdotally, to be productive. In my experience, the very networkiness of these things makes them hard to contend with emotionally, but treating the networkiness as a the culprit itself rather than a nearly-insurmountable barrier to contending with some real culprit has been promising. Scott Alexander on this way of modeling mental disorder here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/14/ssc-journal-club-mental-disorders-as-networks/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/14/ssc-journal-club-menta...