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A lot of it comes down to exercise and diet. Skipping breakfast after a night of drinking can lead to a low level of blood sugar; this gets worse as we age and

A lot of it comes down to exercise and diet. Skipping breakfast after a night of drinking can lead to a low level of blood sugar; this gets worse as we age and has the effect of depression. You have to closely monitor your blood sugar level, even if you have never been diagnosed as having any psychiatric precondition.

gizi 11y ago
Besides diet and exercise, there is also the issue of social hygiene. Many people have become hardcore individualists. They do not even have a husband or a wife, let alone have meaningful interactions with other family members. You see, regular sex is not just a way of having fun. It is also something that contributes to your mental well being and assists in keeping you out of depressions and other mental issues. The same holds true for meaning-seeking spirituality such as in religion and meditation. It is one of the things that helps keeping you mentally healthy. For hardcore individualists and anti-spiritualists is their entire lifestyle that is in question.
- xxpor 11y ago
  So not being married is a sign of being mentally ill?
  - humanrebar 11y ago
    I think the point was that regular sex is good for mental health.
- humanrebar 11y ago
  > The same holds true for meaning-seeking spirituality such as in religion and meditation. It is one of the things that helps keeping you mentally healthy. Ironically that's a fairly meaningless statement. "Finding meaning" can actually be counterproductive if I find a self-destructive meaning or one that hurts the people I care about. Now if you mean we should break out of day-to-day scurrying about and searching for actual truth... I can buy that. But I've seen people "find their own meaning" with catastrophic personal consequences.
PragmaticPulp 11y ago
I won't disagree that diet and exercise are a great way to improve your physical and mental health, but you can't equate low blood sugar with clinical major depressive disorder. MDD is much more pervasive, consistent, and miserable than the effects of transient hypoglycemia. And major depressive disorder certainly doesn't remit by having a meal to raise your blood sugar.

gizi 11y ago

Besides diet and exercise, there is also the issue of social hygiene. Many people have become hardcore individualists. They do not even have a husband or a wife, let alone have meaningful interactions with other family members. You see, regular sex is not just a way of having fun. It is also something that contributes to your mental well being and assists in keeping you out of depressions and other mental issues. The same holds true for meaning-seeking spirituality such as in religion and meditation. It is one of the things that helps keeping you mentally healthy. For hardcore individualists and anti-spiritualists is their entire lifestyle that is in question.

xxpor 11y ago
So not being married is a sign of being mentally ill?
- humanrebar 11y ago
  I think the point was that regular sex is good for mental health.
humanrebar 11y ago
> The same holds true for meaning-seeking spirituality such as in religion and meditation. It is one of the things that helps keeping you mentally healthy. Ironically that's a fairly meaningless statement. "Finding meaning" can actually be counterproductive if I find a self-destructive meaning or one that hurts the people I care about. Now if you mean we should break out of day-to-day scurrying about and searching for actual truth... I can buy that. But I've seen people "find their own meaning" with catastrophic personal consequences.

PragmaticPulp 11y ago

I won't disagree that diet and exercise are a great way to improve your physical and mental health, but you can't equate low blood sugar with clinical major depressive disorder. MDD is much more pervasive, consistent, and miserable than the effects of transient hypoglycemia. And major depressive disorder certainly doesn't remit by having a meal to raise your blood sugar.