Jpinion III- Combating Depression 04.14.08
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Is depression indicative of a malfunctioning body part? Personally, I don’t think so; I don’t even believe it really exists. It’s all in your reality; it’s all in your perspective. With the experiences I’ve had combating and acquiescing to depression, I’ve started to develop a picture of what depression is as a whole.
Sometimes depression is a friend; sometimes it’s your only friend. Sometimes depression is a foe worth combating with all of your energy. It really depends on how in-control you are when you wake-up every morning. People seem inclined to be depressed because they don’t understand that similar to smoking, it’s an addiction that feels good. You get so used to depression it becomes the faucet from which you derive pleasure. For others it might be a subconscious vehicle to their plot in the Prescription-drug Nation.
Yes, depression, just like your friends, will stab you in the back. It’ll come on so slowly you won’t even realize it. Perhaps characterized by a difficult time finding the motivation to do things, depression is like a clouding of your thoughts. It hinders your unfortunate thoughts to the effect of a lifestyle-enslaved, imagine being chained and shackled as you go about work and home-life. So how do you combat this? You learn to be in-control.
From the sound of your own heart-beat to deciphering murmurs in the next room, your mind is incredible with the ability to focus intently on almost anything; moreover it also has the ability to heal. So when you’re tired of being depressed, remove yourself from your depression. Use your mind-power to change your reality. A change in perspective will easily bring about a significant change in life. I’m a lucky person because I believe I’m a lucky person. You are a depressed person because you believed you were a depressed person.
Let’s say that nobody on earth ever founded Depression, let’s say that instead of calling it “Depression,” we called it, “Moving-on,” and we understood that it was a temporary process of which we controlled. (This is my reality). Let’s say that there were no anti-depressants and under no-circumstance was depression considered remotely bad, but considered normal. Do you think that people would still be enslaved by depression?
The answer is no and it’s because the belief-system that people are born into is what they generally adopt; think outside of the box. They believed depression was a monster, so it was. Let’s reevaluate our way of considering life. Let’s look at our lives from an objective standpoint, of which we are in control.
Can you do that? Can you be in control? Here’s what I do: I think, I’m not depressed because I refuse to be; and, simply it is so. So when you get your depression under control, you may then revel occasionally in depression. Perhaps on the next gloomy day you’ll decide to be gloomy as well. Self-control at a level like that feels great, I know from first-hand experience. The more you practice self-control in various aspects of your life, the stronger your self-control will be. Likewise, that’s the stronger you will be. Likewise if you are an angry person or an anti-social person, you also could be suffering from a reality disorder. Remember you can do what any other human can do and I am a human and I am in control. I mean, this is MANkind, isn’t it?
by JlB
Is depression indicative of a malfunctioning body part? Personally, I don’t think so; I don’t even believe it really exists. It’s all in your reality; it’s all in your perspective. With the experiences I’ve had combating and acquiescing to depression, I’ve started to develop a picture of what depression is as a whole.
Sometimes depression is a friend; sometimes it’s your only friend. Sometimes depression is a foe worth combating with all of your energy. It really depends on how in-control you are when you wake-up every morning. People seem inclined to be depressed because they don’t understand that similar to smoking, it’s an addiction that feels good. You get so used to depression it becomes the faucet from which you derive pleasure. For others it might be a subconscious vehicle to their plot in the Prescription-drug Nation.
Yes, depression, just like your friends, will stab you in the back. It’ll come on so slowly you won’t even realize it. Perhaps characterized by a difficult time finding the motivation to do things, depression is like a clouding of your thoughts. It hinders your unfortunate thoughts to the effect of a lifestyle-enslaved, imagine being chained and shackled as you go about work and home-life. So how do you combat this? You learn to be in-control.
From the sound of your own heart-beat to deciphering murmurs in the next room, your mind is incredible with the ability to focus intently on almost anything; moreover it also has the ability to heal. So when you’re tired of being depressed, remove yourself from your depression. Use your mind-power to change your reality. A change in perspective will easily bring about a significant change in life. I’m a lucky person because I believe I’m a lucky person. You are a depressed person because you believed you were a depressed person.
Let’s say that nobody on earth ever founded Depression, let’s say that instead of calling it “Depression,” we called it, “Moving-on,” and we understood that it was a temporary process of which we controlled. (This is my reality). Let’s say that there were no anti-depressants and under no-circumstance was depression considered remotely bad, but considered normal. Do you think that people would still be enslaved by depression?
The answer is no and it’s because the belief-system that people are born into is what they generally adopt; think outside of the box. They believed depression was a monster, so it was. Let’s reevaluate our way of considering life. Let’s look at our lives from an objective standpoint, of which we are in control.
Can you do that? Can you be in control? Here’s what I do: I think, I’m not depressed because I refuse to be; and, simply it is so. So when you get your depression under control, you may then revel occasionally in depression. Perhaps on the next gloomy day you’ll decide to be gloomy as well. Self-control at a level like that feels great, I know from first-hand experience. The more you practice self-control in various aspects of your life, the stronger your self-control will be. Likewise, that’s the stronger you will be. Likewise if you are an angry person or an anti-social person, you also could be suffering from a reality disorder. Remember you can do what any other human can do and I am a human and I am in control. I mean, this is MANkind, isn’t it?
by JlB
4 comments:
I agree with your suggestion that depression is simply a state of mind. Don't comparative deprivation play a significant role in depression? For example, when we see all riches that others have, and we compare it to what little we have-it's depressing.
G. Obershawn
NY Daily
Wow.
I have suffered from depression on and off my entire life which made things incredibly difficult. It was only recently, when I found a medicine that worked, did I begin to have my state of mind lifted from hopelessness to a noiseless static.
This is an uneducated, ridiculous article.
Yes, I agree, there are HUGE differences between depression and sadness. Not everyone suffers from depression but everyone gets blue and sad.
If it weren't for anti-depressants, I would definitely not be here right now.
This is completely ignorant and based on limited knowledge and experience.
I also wanted to add that YES people are in control of their sad feelings, but not things like major clinical depression. It never felt GOOD to be depressed and I am so glad I am not anymore. Do I ever get sad when people die or relationships end? Of course. But that doesn't mean I'm relapsing, it just means...I'm sad.
This is a prime example of stigmatizing mental illness and blaming it on the person who is mentally ill and cannot help it. It has been proven that depression is a disease and is actually genetic.
Maybe pills are overprescribed, but that just means that people don't know the difference between sadness and a temporary melancholy and actual depression.
In the case of Anna, it looks like your words of depression have fallen on deaf ears. (jlB)
Anna, it was probably not the medicine that healed your (seratonin imbalance) "reality-disorder" as the blogger writes, it was probably your readiness to move past the disorder as a whole.
Whether you used an overprescribed pill to locate the strength necessary to fix your perceptions is a choice that you made. Many people do not use the pills to obtain strength, instead they use them to never grow any of it whatsoever.
All too frequently people pop-pills and then honestly believe that it's the pill that cures them. That is a misconception that many doctors will tell you about. A simple metaphor for this is that when most people get headaches, they suddenly need aspirin as if aspirin is the reason that their body and mind has given them a headache.
Headaches indicate that something is wrong inside of you-- so why do you mask it so? The pain does not go away, there are still nerves sending out pain signals to your brain, your brain just cannot feel them anymore. This is unhealthy.
Depression indicates that your mind is too weak to be positive so it's stuck in negativity. (Sorry man, I'm not as nice as you.)
I concur; too commonly people agree to be weak (in turn, agreeing to have diseases and anxiety(s).
Blogger, I admire the strong person who fights for health like they fight to perservere against adversity or even death too.
Jordan, you keep preaching man.
Lastly, the major difference between depression and sadness is that sadness is a healing process (or road); on the other hand, depression indicates that you have decided to have a seat in life while it passes you by.
Anna: I am sorry if you cannot ge up. If you will be sad, then you will (and should) be sad. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't also try yout hardest to be positive are you afraid that it might work? You should utilize your brain for only positivity from now on and see how depressed your body and mind will actually allow you to be.
Thanks for the profound thoughts kid.
`C.Roberts
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