Jesus fuck, we had a perfectly good thread about motivational books and helping with depression, and of course GC has to come and shit all over it like a fucking two year-old with his pathetic "read the bible,you were never a Christian, neener-neener" stupidity. Fuck off, asshole. Seriously, anyone that tries to peddle religion to someone looking for mental health help needs to be heartily bitch-slapped like the predator they are.
TEGH, in all my years fighting depression, I only found one book that ever came close to being of any value, but it's been so long since I read it that I can't really remember enough to recommend it. It's "The Miracle of Mindfulness" by Thich Nhat Hanh. He's a Buddhist monk, and I know you said no religious stuff. Mindfulness, however, can actually be a secular concept that doesn't take buying into the woo to be of value, and I believe there's not a whole lot of religious material in the book. Although, like I said, it's been so long that I can't actually remember what I liked about it, but I remember being pretty inspired by it.
TEGH, in all my years fighting depression, I only found one book that ever came close to being of any value, but it's been so long since I read it that I can't really remember enough to recommend it. It's "The Miracle of Mindfulness" by Thich Nhat Hanh. He's a Buddhist monk, and I know you said no religious stuff. Mindfulness, however, can actually be a secular concept that doesn't take buying into the woo to be of value, and I believe there's not a whole lot of religious material in the book. Although, like I said, it's been so long that I can't actually remember what I liked about it, but I remember being pretty inspired by it.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
