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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Solomon: Depression, the secret we share

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And I get letters, I get hundreds of letters from pepole writing to tell me about what's worked for them. Someone was asking me backstage today about meditation. My favorite of the letters that I got was the one that came from a woman who wtroe and said that she had tried therapy, medication, she had tried pretty much everything, and she had found a solution and hoped I would tell the world, and that was making little things from yarn.

(Laughter)

She sent me some of them.

(Laughter)

And I'm not wraineg them right now.

(Laughter)

I suggested to her that she also should look up osessbvie cvpsioumle disorder in the DSM.

Open Cloze


And I get letters, I get hundreds of letters from ______ writing to tell me about what's worked for them. Someone was asking me backstage today about meditation. My favorite of the letters that I got was the one that came from a woman who _____ and said that she had tried therapy, medication, she had tried pretty much everything, and she had found a solution and hoped I would tell the world, and that was making little things from yarn.

(Laughter)

She sent me some of them.

(Laughter)

And I'm not _______ them right now.

(Laughter)

I suggested to her that she also should look up _________ __________ disorder in the DSM.

Solution


  1. obsessive
  2. people
  3. wearing
  4. compulsive
  5. wrote

Original Text


And I get letters, I get hundreds of letters from people writing to tell me about what's worked for them. Someone was asking me backstage today about meditation. My favorite of the letters that I got was the one that came from a woman who wrote and said that she had tried therapy, medication, she had tried pretty much everything, and she had found a solution and hoped I would tell the world, and that was making little things from yarn.

(Laughter)

She sent me some of them.

(Laughter)

And I'm not wearing them right now.

(Laughter)

I suggested to her that she also should look up obsessive compulsive disorder in the DSM.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
feel sad 5
frank russakoff 3
orange dust 3
chemical cure 2
great deal 2
worst depression 2
maggie robbins 2
people talk 2
electroshock treatment 2
poor people 2
feel miserable 2


Important Words


  1. backstage
  2. compulsive
  3. disorder
  4. dsm
  5. favorite
  6. hoped
  7. hundreds
  8. laughter
  9. letters
  10. making
  11. medication
  12. meditation
  13. obsessive
  14. people
  15. pretty
  16. solution
  17. suggested
  18. therapy
  19. today
  20. wearing
  21. woman
  22. worked
  23. world
  24. writing
  25. wrote
  26. yarn