Depression is a fact of modern life because modern life is unhealthy for human beings. Human beings were not meant to sit in a cubicle all day staring at a computer screen! We need to be outside - we need to be active. We need to eat healthy food produced without corn products. The meat we eat now - and our ancestors did evolve eating meat - is being fed corn and does not have Omega-3 fatty acids that we need from grass fed animals. Modern civilization is killing us!
That said, I would never want to go without modern medical science - especially antibiotics, sterile technique, anesthetics and vaccines.
When we're depressed, aren't we actively spinning our wheels, generating thoughts that make us depressed? Wouldn't the ability to pick oneself out of a low depression depend more on thinking rationally and quieting those thoughts?
No. Getting out of real, actual depression and not just being bummed out is not about just "thinking rationally."
@katekate is squared: Exactly. Thinking rationally has little or no effect in the long run. Quieting thoughts by repression doesn't work either. Depressions are not mental problems, they are variable conditions that may represent signals or clusters of signs that certain functions of the body have gone out of equilibrium. There is not just one kind of 'depression,' and whatever variety is causing the suffering is just as much a physical condition. People who get
this awful advice to bear up, carry on, and think happy thoughts are entitled to our most heartfelt sympathy.
Well it fits nicely with the pbs show on happiness in which a Dane tells us why the Danish are the happiest people in the word: Low expectations of themselves.
As Ben Sherwood might say: "You can eat an entire jumbo jet; you just need to take lots of little bites."
Or as Kwai Chang would say: "The journey of a thousand smiles begins with a single misstep."
I've re-created myself 10 different times, right here in good 'ol North America. I've been successful every time.
Ladies, try that shit in Yemen or Saudi Arabia or India. Just try it on for size. See if the fit and color is right..... and good damn luck to you......
Crybaby scholars. Gawd. I could go for miles on this topic. Idiots. It isn't "depression." Its what we, the people who have CHOICES, call dissatisfaction. Recognize it, embrace the misery, then choose the way out and up.
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That said, I would never want to go without modern medical science - especially antibiotics, sterile technique, anesthetics and vaccines.
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No. Getting out of real, actual depression and not just being bummed out is not about just "thinking rationally."
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this awful advice to bear up, carry on, and think happy thoughts are entitled to our most heartfelt sympathy.
06/27/09
As Ben Sherwood might say: "You can eat an entire jumbo jet; you just need to take lots of little bites."
Or as Kwai Chang would say: "The journey of a thousand smiles begins with a single misstep."
06/27/09
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I've re-created myself 10 different times, right here in good 'ol North America. I've been successful every time.
Ladies, try that shit in Yemen or Saudi Arabia or India. Just try it on for size. See if the fit and color is right..... and good damn luck to you......
Crybaby scholars. Gawd. I could go for miles on this topic. Idiots. It isn't "depression." Its what we, the people who have CHOICES, call dissatisfaction. Recognize it, embrace the misery, then choose the way out and up.
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