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Apparently you are just a dick. I am beyond major depression. I am Major Depression. In fact, you should call me “the Major” for now.
Avoiding negative feelings might contribute to PTSD or depression. I say might, it’s too vague a rule to be useful. But avoiding negative thoughts is not going to create PTSD. But hey, let us know where you got this idea from.
If you are both struggling with depression, why call him names?
I’ve been called worse than a dick and a coward. No big deal. I just reacted to the flippant remark that avoiding the negative causes PTSD. If this is true I’d like to know the source of the information.
Having PTSD and depression. You need to go with the flow.
If you resist the thoughts, it gives them more power, and PTSD worsens. If you have depression, its best to embrace the sadness.
If you have a stomach ache, resisting the pain will make it worse. Resistance in of itself is pain.
Trixie, why embrace the pain?
Why not embrace “the leaf” instead? It’ll help get over the pain and sadness!
The flow with PTSD is not changed by avoiding negative thoughts. Avoiding, completely negative feelings might cause you problems, especially since you will likely need drugs to do this. With depression, no you are quite wrong. It helps to think other things. Fuck, even shallow CBT approaches help people. Combine it with some real working through the traumatic moments on an emotional level and it is very effective. Depression gets worse if you let those thoughts take you over. They are like a machine in the mind.
It is good to embrace the sadness, when sadness comes up, sadness not being depression. But the thoughts about how X will lead to Y which will lead to Z which will mean I am always alone. And mulling over and over over mistakes or sitting there in stuck mental routines worrying about death are all utter dead ends and for the depressive really dangerous.
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and of course pain in the stomach, is not a thought.
Trixie,
You are not Major depression. You experience its dis-ease.
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Dunno what a leaf means.
Mary Jane. “Marijuana”.
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MJ does nothing for me.
Nor for me.
Oh so you’ve tried it before. Great…
So, it does nothing?
Hmm… possibly because of the inherently lower Norepi/white matter levels in your brains, which is what cannabis acts upon* – it’s so low that you don’t feel any difference.
But low is still not 0, and it seems cannabis can help make it higher by interacting with and stimulating white matter to grow. High levels of white matter are good for long life and freedom from, for instance, white matter disease**, depression, dementia etc.
** Dr. Nicole Anderson: "Our findings add to a growing body of evidence that white matter disease is a discreet saboteur in the brain, impacting a large number of cognitive functions. It is responsible for about a fifth of all strokes worldwide (Sudlow, 1997), more than doubles the future risk of stroke (Debette 2010, Vermeer, 2007), and is a contributing factor in up to 45% of dementias (Gorelick, 2011).” The prevalent view is based on an “evil, villainous disease” idea, saying: “white matter disease is a mind-robbing condition that targets small blood vessels deep within the brain’s white matter. The disease hardens the tiny arteries, gradually restricting nutrients to white matter” – but the victim’s genes/lifestyle/environment, which results in less axonic/white matter processes, and more of the dendritic/Dopaminic – is more worthy of blame. White matter withers away (the use or lose law) even as grey matter declares its fiefdoms in the brain.
Source: djedefsauron.net/index.php?o … Itemid=146
I disagree. Though it may be true for all cases, it is not for me.
Cannabis was over effective for me, due to mental feminization (and presumed white matter increase.)
When my moods are feminine, my brain structureally alters itself. Cannabis is over effective to the point where it is inneffective. It is like my brain is already on cannabis before I take it and numb or drowned to it. In school I would laugh in class for no reason, and I was a nice and loving person, before I ever touched this stuff.
When my moods are masculine, it is like I am in another mode. I can not even feel the effects cannabis has on me. The main feature of this mode is my inability to laugh while in masculine mode.
My mind has always gone to strange and wonderful places without need of drug transport. I’ve tried the best marijuana out there with no trips, no hallucinogenic experience, no escape from stubborn reality. Only alcohol brings pain and pleasure to my senses and thought. It allows me to express naked thoughts in the company of judges. Given my family medical history, I could die at any time from heart attack or stroke. If so, I’ll go out with a buzz.
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Trixie your idea of mental masculinity/feminity is not 100% correct, it is only 50%correct. Let me explain how.
There are two types of people, right brain dominated people (more white matter-oriented) and left brain dominated people (more gray matter-oriented) .
As a general rule, females are always relatively balanced, oriented neither too much towards left brain nor too much towards right brain – relatively more balanced than males (that’s why double-chins are rarer in females, or why their corpus callosum is larger).
Your idea of mental masculinity sees only one side of the spectrum. Kannerian males have more gray matter than females, so you call “more gray matter”, as masculine.
However, from the other side of the spectrum, Aspergian males have more white matter than females, so I can just as well claim that “masculinity” involves more white matter than gray… (by the way, that is the viewpoint of some of the tomboy elites, who are disgusted by gray matter-dominant male behaviours like back-scratching and chimpanzism, and consider that to be unbefitting of true males)
And if you think that mental pleasure that causes tears of laughter is something “feminine” and futile – I hope some greater power can save you from dementia and depression. Cannabis can save you, or at least greatly improve your condition.