Robin Williams, star of Jumanji, dead in apparent suicide - by nobodyinparticular
Tony_Tarantula on 14/8/2014 at 19:04
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An economy driven by dissatisfaction could scarcely fail to cultivate mental illness.
Exactly
Yakoob on 15/8/2014 at 07:32
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People who haven't experienced depression probably have trouble even understanding what it is. The most common response I hear is "what do you have to be depressed about?", which is completely ridiculous since having a reason to be unhappy wouldn't be considered pathological.
Indeed, and that is possibly the most frustrating level of depression you can get to, where literally everything is going great and perfectly aligned with all your dreams and desires, and yet you feel so miserable and unable to appreciate any of it. Plus it adds a whole new wonderful element of guilt into the mix.
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If it's a breakdown in cognitive development, the massively higher rates of mental illness in the US vs other 1st world countries
I'm always skeptical of such claims. With so many cultural differences, do other countries even percieve depression the same way? What kind of metrics were used to compare the US and other countries? And even if the tests were designed right, wouldn't some cultures be more open about it than others? It wouldn't surprise me if, say, the Japanese were more likely to keep their depression to themselves than the US.
icemann on 15/8/2014 at 08:47
I've experienced depression on and off this year. Sometimes for a few days straight, and other times just for individual days.
The oddest feeling, I have to say.
I just do my best to ignore it and go about my day as if it's not there, and just try and be logical about it, that it's all due to ceratonan levels in the brain being low etc, and just wait for it to eventually go away. Not a very nice feeling.
Certainly makes you want to drink alcohol more often. Or for me that's been the effect.
Tony_Tarantula on 18/8/2014 at 16:00
Haven't found that to be effective.
It's a circular cycle.
Remember the quote from the Matrix about spoon bending? "Do not try to bend the spoon, for that is impossible. Instead realize the truth: there is no spoon. Then you will realize it is not the spoon that bends, but only yourself".
What it's saying you can not directly alter the reality that you live in. Once you discover how to affect change from within then you are capable of "bending" your world and producing the changes you desire.
In other words some version of (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_%28New_Thought%29) the law of attraction is true as it relates to life experiences. I've found that after forcing myself to think positively (utilizing guided meditation, relaxation, mental health counseling, and external stimulus) about life situations and focus on what I expected to obtain (while previously my pattern in life was to focus on my lack) produced excellent results.....and that's why depression is so deadly. Once you begin focusing on the negative aspects of life you begin missing positive opportunities and gravitating towards negative events. It can create a situation where you are spiraling around the drain and from which you can not escape without an external stimulus being applied.
Turtle on 19/8/2014 at 03:03
Who are you even talking to?
Tony_Tarantula on 19/8/2014 at 03:52
Deleted, I put that in the wrong thread. It was in response to Sycamor and some others talking off-handed about whether you can trust the media.....which you can't because about half of all the "facts" presented in US television media are wrong.
Nicker on 2/9/2014 at 02:00
The deadly sin of Sloth, is generally taken today to mean extreme and deliberate laziness but apparently it once referred to a state of hopeless inertia, in short, the symptoms of clinical depression. The sin was that you no longer found joy in Yahweh's creation.
As if being depressed wasn't enough.
Tony_Tarantula on 2/9/2014 at 02:07
source?
