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Nov 2019
34m 4s

Battling Depression from the C-Suite

Morra Aarons-Mele
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For most of his life, Paul Greenberg suffered from severe depression -- depression so bad that he had near constant thoughts of suicide from the age of 13. But you'd never know it if you met him. And he has built a successful media career, including stints at MTV and Time, and eventually becoming the CEO of CollegeHumor. To battle the depression, he tried so ... Show More
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