tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
Religion can give you something positive to focus on, encourage a sense of community and promote(in most cases)basic moral and family values.
The opposite of depression could well be the joy and positive affirmation people receive from embracing life and thanking their creator(s).
As you say Abitrary, depression is a reaction to confusion and there is someone on every corner to tell you how to avoid this confusion, mostly these suggestions are only a distraction from the confusion which either returns or become internalised and in turn, more damaging.
I personally feel levels and complexity of depression are rising in pace with modern western life.
The constant media barrage of how we should look, how we should behave, who to admire and who to admonish, etc.
People in the west are being pushed harder and taxed to the point of dispair thru social engineering and cracks are starting to show all over the place.
This seems not to be a problem when the East can provide million upon millions of new customers fresh and keen for the 'lifestyle' game, whereas millions of us in the West are being burnt out, disillusioned and exhausted by years of it, and apparently with no 'settled' end in sight.*
The Western answer to depression?
Therepy eases you back into it all again and meds stop you screaming your face off at human injustices in public.*
You might blur/dull the corners of a square peg but you still won't get it to fit comfortably in a round hole.*
The tdr1nka philosophy is to, no matter what, allow yourself to have a positive dream, no matter how small or seemingly unachievable it might be.
Mine is that I have been encouraging others to improve their health, have fun and save a lot of stress by cycling for all my years in the saddle or that one day, Mrs. tdr1nka & I will escape the Metrolop*ss for good, to our life in the country, having that concerted stab at self sufficiancy that we and so many promise themselves.
*Extracts from D. tdr1nka's 'Guide To Modern Depression: Come On Now, Cheer Up!'.
The opposite of depression could well be the joy and positive affirmation people receive from embracing life and thanking their creator(s).
As you say Abitrary, depression is a reaction to confusion and there is someone on every corner to tell you how to avoid this confusion, mostly these suggestions are only a distraction from the confusion which either returns or become internalised and in turn, more damaging.
I personally feel levels and complexity of depression are rising in pace with modern western life.
The constant media barrage of how we should look, how we should behave, who to admire and who to admonish, etc.
People in the west are being pushed harder and taxed to the point of dispair thru social engineering and cracks are starting to show all over the place.
This seems not to be a problem when the East can provide million upon millions of new customers fresh and keen for the 'lifestyle' game, whereas millions of us in the West are being burnt out, disillusioned and exhausted by years of it, and apparently with no 'settled' end in sight.*
The Western answer to depression?
Therepy eases you back into it all again and meds stop you screaming your face off at human injustices in public.*
You might blur/dull the corners of a square peg but you still won't get it to fit comfortably in a round hole.*
The tdr1nka philosophy is to, no matter what, allow yourself to have a positive dream, no matter how small or seemingly unachievable it might be.
Mine is that I have been encouraging others to improve their health, have fun and save a lot of stress by cycling for all my years in the saddle or that one day, Mrs. tdr1nka & I will escape the Metrolop*ss for good, to our life in the country, having that concerted stab at self sufficiancy that we and so many promise themselves.
*Extracts from D. tdr1nka's 'Guide To Modern Depression: Come On Now, Cheer Up!'.
