Posted by Existentialist on August 25, 2007, at 13:27:05
In reply to Re: Still no cure for my depression - tried everything, posted by jhj on August 25, 2007, at 2:09:13
No, I didn't mean that suicide was a 'serious' option to consider, but I was trying to imply that before that level of desperation is reached, that psychadellic illegal drugs should be on the table. I'm not sure how controversial it is to talk about that here.
Also I think before you look at those drugs there is a lot to be done as far as understanding ourselves and our lives and the root causes of human distrubance. I think it's a result of personal and social development, and general lack of sanity modern life can have. It's a repressive way of life we live and control games and psychological defense mechanisms are abundant.
Healthy lifestyle and diet and exclusion of other biological illness. Perhaps visit a bhuddist monestary and live there for a year and see if your perspective changes. Some sort of massive lifestyle overhaul and self help where you try and rebuild yourself, think about why you have the emotions you do, and work to develop new emotional and cognitive patterns.
My life has had a lot of ups and downs, and for most of it I've felt quite off. Growing up in my family was totally screwed up, socially in school I was totally screwed up. I finally made it to college and things got screwed up there as well. It's all been a huge process of evolution. The danger is getting stuck in a reppressive lifestyle and mental and physical pattern (bad diet, lack of exercise) that you can't escape from.
jhj, Have you tried social immersion? I went from being quite poor and uncomfortable socially to be able to strike up conversations and being outgoing in about a year. I changed how I understood other people and learned new social skills I did not have before. I changed my lifestyle so I was not constantly avoiding social interaction. Through many interactions I found a personality and parts of myself I wanted to express back to them.
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