RE: How do you deal with depression when you're out of touch with your emotions?
July 19, 2020 at 9:28 am
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2020 at 9:29 am by Porcupine.)
(July 19, 2020 at 8:41 am)Sal Wrote: Have you checked out stoicism?
For sure. But I prefer Epicureanism to Stoicism.
(July 19, 2020 at 9:15 am)Lawz Wrote: I've never suffered from clinical depression, but whenever I feel down I try to remember to count my blessings. I live in one of the richest countries in the world and am bathed in material luxuries (laptops, internet, double bed with cushions, central heating, microwaves, luxury food by the kilogram - I ain't going hungry, put it that way, free healthcare should I fall ill, and related, I'm not in agony through physical illness or injury, I'm not in prison so am free...etc etc etc etc etc virtually ad infinitum). The idea that I should be depressed, when 100s of millions of people on the planet are living in penury/destitution/war zones/physical agony/incarceration etc...me? Depressed? Don't be absurd.
Even the most privileged people can be depressed. Such is the nature of depression.
"Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts
