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by eatitraw 13y ago
It sound like you may be depressed. My usual advice boils down to these three things that I posted in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685599 Or another version of this advice in one of the previous threads( https://news
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1) How to know if you are depressed: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ao1aqb9vinfcwt2/Burns_De... (there are a number of other questionnaires, but I like this one) 2) How to deal with depression: book by Dr. David Burns "Feeling good"
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Again, worthwhile - to whom? And again, you can apply the very same logic to (some) adults. Many people, actually, do this. That's why they ban drugs, for example. That's why they setup(or allow the setup of) censorship systems(china great
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by eatitraw 13y ago
> Spot on. Kids lack sufficient perspective to understand which activities are important and why. Important to whom? I am pretty sure kids know what is important to them and why. Sure, this may be different to what their parents think(e
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Oh crap. Why do someone want to do this with their own children? I am especially puzzled about the purpose of: "- play any instrument other than the piano or violin - not play the piano or violin." I just don't understand the logic behind t
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I wonder if it is possible to train people with such condition to successfully recognize faces. I have some difficulties recognizing faces(not nearly as huge as describe in the article), and I think my ability improved during last couple of
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There is actually lamernews: http://lamernews.com/ . I have only vague memories of why this website appeared, but as far as I remember it has something to do with moderation.
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I've never noticed dog riding a train in the moscow subway. I could have pay not enough attention though.
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The state is the enemy of freedom? Big news! Journalists don't look further than their noses. The truth is that vast majority of governments restrict freedom on much much larger scale. It is stupid to expect that government in your country
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1) Even if there are drugs(antidepressants, stimulants, etc) which can relieve depression by interacting with dopaminergic, serotoninergic or noradrenergic neuronal systems, it doesn't mean that depression was caused by lack of specific neu
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As far as I understand - no. However it's not like other people don't get sad, and always stay happy and motivated, they are just able to break out of their bad moods quickly enough. Depression is very widespread though. Up to one third of
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by eatitraw 14y ago
Even if you aren't going to commit suicide right now or in the near future, try to get professional help as soon as possible. Suicidal urges is very alarming sign. Remember, your problems are temporary, your pain is temporary. It shall pass
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In Russia, there are ballot boxes that automatically count ballots. No fancy technology here - they just scan ballot, detect mark position, and after the end of the election day these ballot boxes just print resulting report. These ballot b
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No, it is the amount of time your program spent in system calls: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/556405/what-do-real-user-...
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by eatitraw 14y ago
I can't comment on the whole situation, since I live outside of the USA, but I can give you some advice about Problem #1. There are great books by David Burns: "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" and "When Panic Attacks". Both are availabl
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> I read the emails and their responses seem perfectly acceptable to me That's probably because you are not the author of this book. Just try to be a little more empathic with this guy: he wrote the book, he did a valuable job(presumabl
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Added to bookmarks! It may become my favourite website for procrastination. :) What I don't like is two-column layout: it makes title boxes have uneven height. Even both columns have different weights. It would be nice to see numbered list
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> I hope he is treated humanely by the police. Russian police can be very brutal, here is the video of Kasparov being arrested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf55YyMC6qk He is put into police bus, and then you can hear him screaming:
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Good point, his description of depression doesn't really match with what I was told by a person who was diagnosed with depression. Actually, this tiny bit of the article makes me skeptical about its whole content. "Complicated"? - highly li