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Print this article A Cure for Darkness begins with a stand-alone paragraph stating that an estimated 322 million people have depression. According to the World Bank, mental health problems are responsible for over 8% of all healthy years lost, more than cancer, heart disease, or malaria. What can humanity do in response to such a staggering tragedy, and what has been done already? A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How we Treat it, by Alex Riley. Scribner, 464 pp., $28. Riley is not a psychologist but an intelligent person with a history of depression who became fascinated by the demon that tormented him. Riley had been a promising Ph.D. student in paleontology at the University of Sheffield and a researcher at the Natural History Museum in London, but he was beset by feelings of inadequacy: “Like the fossils that I pored over, I felt delicate and brittle, capable of breaking at the slightest drop.” After unemployment and a breakup exacerbated his

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