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> Depressed? Just be cheerful. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy exists and is known to be a first step towards recovery. > Alcoholic? Just quit drinking.

> Depressed? Just be cheerful. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy exists and is known to be a first step towards recovery. > Alcoholic? Just quit drinking. Yes. See Albert Bandura in 2007 in study on Addictive Behaviors. Or after that, I was just reading this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3179802/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3179802/ > Your city is breaking down? Just move elsewhere. Yes, or fix it. Or don't contribute to the break down, especially not by speaking negative or toxic things when one can otherwise just be quiet and let the people fixing things fix things. > Kids keep you up at night? Just give them away. Discipline them, or figure out bed-time strategy? Can't help on this one tbh since I don't have kids of my own. > Terminal illness? Just get well. This just comes across as a last-ditch effort to try to prove me wrong lol

coldtea 3y ago
>This just comes across as a last-ditch effort to try to prove me wrong lol Yeah, because all the other ironic examples (amounting to "just stop having the problem") you non-ironically agreed to variations of, were such well established solutions...
- CyrsBel 3y ago
  Those aren't ironic examples though, the evidence shows that it really is a matter in some of those cases of a mindset switch. And note that it is listed as a starting step. One must continue the roadmap to get to the end. Of course that for the final possibility of "you're about to go to heaven" there's nothing that can be said or done besides making peace with God, I mean what else could anyone say to that? That one is definitely an unfair one because it's at the very limit where in that case you're definitely right, can't do anything about that one. (Although even then I'll note that one King Hezekiah was it? Who requested more time on Earth and it was granted to him after God saw his many earnest tears.)

coldtea 3y ago

>This just comes across as a last-ditch effort to try to prove me wrong lol Yeah, because all the other ironic examples (amounting to "just stop having the problem") you non-ironically agreed to variations of, were such well established solutions...

CyrsBel 3y ago
Those aren't ironic examples though, the evidence shows that it really is a matter in some of those cases of a mindset switch. And note that it is listed as a starting step. One must continue the roadmap to get to the end. Of course that for the final possibility of "you're about to go to heaven" there's nothing that can be said or done besides making peace with God, I mean what else could anyone say to that? That one is definitely an unfair one because it's at the very limit where in that case you're definitely right, can't do anything about that one. (Although even then I'll note that one King Hezekiah was it? Who requested more time on Earth and it was granted to him after God saw his many earnest tears.)