(December 31, 2015 at 8:10 pm)MTL Wrote:(December 31, 2015 at 7:53 pm)wallym Wrote: I know you probably can't, but if you could would you deceive yourself? Is happiness based on delusion less valid? Again, that would require you to be able to fully delude yourself, and it's tough to put the reason train in reverse.
Well, I've struggled with depression for my entire adult life, and have never availed myself of antidepressants
because I'd rather be authentically miserable than artificially happy.
Damn, I don't mean that to sound as judgmental as it does...perhaps I'm a fool for not taking medication,
and lots of people have benefited from it;
but I think it illustrates that I'm a put-my-hand-on-a-hot-stove-burner-to-make-sure-I'm-really-awake type of girl.
I get you, MTL. They put me on Prozac for a bit and I felt foggy. (or was that fuzzy?) I begged my therapist to help me come up with natural things to fight depression. Diet, exercise, gardening, sunlight, volunteer work, etc. Volunteer work does wonders for me. It gives perspective. It's not the easy road and sometimes it's amazingly hard to drag yourself up and about, but I just didn't like the drugs.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
