Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism

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Speaking personally, I have to put a lot of time and effort into maintaining my own wellbeing. As I suffer from severe depression among other things, I am little use to anyone if I can't keep myself afloat. I can easily become a burden, in fact. So to achieve my goal of helping others, I must continue to help myself as well. So it would be immoral of me, in my opinion, to neglect myself.

I do find it rather amusing, the idea of actively doing things in order to improve my own state of mind. A kind of weird duality, where I'm trying to affect a part of me that isn't directly under my control.