4 ms·
Memes, memes everywhere.. Existential depression, my ass! Gifted adults, and even children, would surely read things like Stepenwolf, On The Road, Cuckoos Nest
by dschiptsov 10y ago
Memes, memes everywhere..
Existential depression, my ass! Gifted adults, and even children, would surely read things like Stepenwolf, On The Road, Cuckoos Nest, Nausea, Age Of Reason and the likes and cure themselves.
Depression is nothing but a set of acquired habits. Change in behavior, caused by traveling and excessive reading, will produce a different perspective upon so called reality and an altered set of habits which will change ones personality. For better or worse.
This kind of CBT goes back to the seers and sages of the East and the first great philosophers of the West somewhere about 600 B.C. It still works.
- itsjareds 10y agoMaybe we're discussing different definitions of the word "depression" here, but depression isn't simply "walked off" or fixed with a change of perspective. To suggest so both ignores the reality of depression as a mental illness and repeats the same myth that people who are depressed are just confusing themselves.
- dschiptsov 10y agoSome people just did it. Some even wrote books based on such experience.
- ionised 10y ago> Depression is nothing but a set of acquired habits. Nope.
- dschiptsov 10y agoNo one has been born depressed.
- ionised 10y agoHumans develop and change both mentally and physically over time.