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Walrus
·Ha ha. I was just bitchin cause I tore up a couple fingers giving me trouble playin. I needed to open my eye
Because We Need To Talk About It
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watchdaddy1
·i'm dealing w/ this as well & something fierce. My love for watches has so been affected as well . I find no joy in anything these days. Please b kind to 1 another as you NEVER know what some1 is battling or fighting. Mens mental health is something I have become very passionate about.
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Cartesian
·In honour of it being exactly 57 years to the minute since Aldrin walked on the moon, here is a 1980 interview with him discussing how he dealt with depression after getting back.
The whole video is worth watching, but I have it set to start at the relevant part:
It's remarkable that he was willing to speak so openly about this then, when there was a much greater stigma about it, and I'm sure doing so was incredibly helpful to countless people.
The whole video is worth watching, but I have it set to start at the relevant part:
It's remarkable that he was willing to speak so openly about this then, when there was a much greater stigma about it, and I'm sure doing so was incredibly helpful to countless people.
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Felix_La_PuBelle
··Sometimes I’m wrong. Usually.For the longest time I looked at people who could do seemingly amazing things and assumed that because they were special people they could do these incredible things with a sense of comfort and confidence. That would lead me to beat myself up whenever I tried to do anything that seemed worth while, because it was always a hard, painful process, and I never felt confident and I didn't think smart successful people felt this way.
Then I discovered, through studying the backgrounds of amazing people, and working professionally with people I regard as geniuses, that so much of what they accomplish happens in the face of their own struggles, doubt, anxiety and suffering. The only super powers they even remotely imply they have boil down to perseverance, focus and essentially stubbornness. And the best of those people, after they finally succeed, won't look back and sugarcoat their success to perpetuate a myth that it was easy. They know that no one can predict the future, and that their past success never guarantee future results. But I think they also know how to find ways out of the trap if they feel truly stuck.
What Buzz is talking about--escaping the self-directed concern--I had to learn through much trial and error. If I ever find myself trapped in my own headspace all I have to do is look outside my own assumptions and tunnel vision, and connect with other people to hear their perspectives and experiences. It always helps get me get unstuck. Anyone feeling stuck, just reach out.
Then I discovered, through studying the backgrounds of amazing people, and working professionally with people I regard as geniuses, that so much of what they accomplish happens in the face of their own struggles, doubt, anxiety and suffering. The only super powers they even remotely imply they have boil down to perseverance, focus and essentially stubbornness. And the best of those people, after they finally succeed, won't look back and sugarcoat their success to perpetuate a myth that it was easy. They know that no one can predict the future, and that their past success never guarantee future results. But I think they also know how to find ways out of the trap if they feel truly stuck.
What Buzz is talking about--escaping the self-directed concern--I had to learn through much trial and error. If I ever find myself trapped in my own headspace all I have to do is look outside my own assumptions and tunnel vision, and connect with other people to hear their perspectives and experiences. It always helps get me get unstuck. Anyone feeling stuck, just reach out.
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Cartesian
·What Buzz is talking about--escaping the self-directed concern--I had to learn through much trial and error.
Yes, I think this was really insightful by Aldrin: taking an overwhelmingly and paralysing inward-directed concern and applying it first to others in an egoist way (where you can help them), then scaffolding from there to a direct concern for others and the dissolution of the original egoism
I found the whole analysis really moving and I'm glad that you did, as well
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Jetspeed
·So we all know what Carrie Fisher was famous for right? But did you know what else she was? She was a Mental Health Advocate and she had a mental illness, she suffered from bipolar disorder.
Well guess what, I have a mental illness too. I battle depression, more specifically MDD or Major Depressive Disorder. It’s a disease, like heart disease or diabetes, treatable but not curable and most commonly thought to be linked to an imbalance of chemicals in the brain, affecting 19 million Americans and 350 million worldwide.
It’s something I’ve battled most of my life in one form or another, although I didn’t have a name or diagnosis for it until my mid thirties. Held in check for many years by antidepressant medication, it descended upon me in 2016 with a viciousness, like never before. It’s been brutal and debilitating, with unbearable darkness, sucking every bit of joy from my life.
One thing depression doesn’t do is discriminate. It doesn’t care how old you are or where you live, how much money you make or what color you are, it doesn’t care if you are a man or a woman or what kind of watch you wear, it's an equal opportunity disease.
Depression is also one of the leading causes for suicide. Yes, I know people who have survived an attempt; they simply couldn’t bear the torment anymore. Would I ever try, no, but that’s not to say I haven’t thought about it. Yes, it can get that dark, a pervasive feeling of inexplicable sadness, hopelessness and despair day after day, week after week, I have been there and I hope I never go there again.
Am I well now, honestly, no, am I better than I was earlier in the year, yes, will I be on medication for the rest of my life probably, but it beats the alternative (see above).
So what’s my point?
Talk about it.
If you or someone you know may be suffering from depression, or any other mental illness there is help. Is it easy, fυck no, I battle every day, I’m still trying to find medication(s) to make it more tolerable, I see a psychiatrist, I talk to a therapist, I talk about it with friends and family and I go to a support group, it all helps.
And last but not least it's nothing to be ashamed of, it's not a weakness or a defect it's just part of some of us.
Here are some links for anyone who needs help or wants answers:
NAMI - National Alliance on Mental Illness - http://www.nami.org
DBSA - Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance - http://www.dbsalliance.org
I admire your courage and appreciate your openness.