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Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support
apophenia Wrote:Speaking of which, I stayed up all night this last night with no desire to sleep. Is this a bounce from the irritable and frustrated depression? Only the gods might know, and they ain't talking.

When I was severely depressed, my brain developed a sort of self-defense mechanism where if I had a day where I felt particularly well, it would not relax to allow me to go to sleep. Waking up from sleep tended to be a crap shoot which ended more often than not with me feeling really depressed, so to prevent that, my brain refused to shut down when I was well. It allowed me to maximize my time of feeling well, but also drained me of energy. At that point, however, as long as I felt well mentally, I could handle any problems such as lack of sleep.


I've been recently reading a new book I picked up called 'Rethinking Depression' by Eric Maisel Ph.D. It's mostly an existential approach to dealing with your emotions, but he spends the fiirst fifty pages making a case for depression not being a mental illness but a human condition. It was interesting, but not quite convincing. I suggest people see if they can find a free verson on the internet and read the first 50 pages. He makes a good case, and I'd like to hear what others think of this.
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



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Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 3, 2012 at 12:44 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Erinome - January 3, 2012 at 12:57 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 3, 2012 at 1:04 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Erinome - January 3, 2012 at 4:32 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 3, 2012 at 1:16 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by walknh2o - January 30, 2012 at 12:15 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 3, 2012 at 1:44 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by fr0d0 - January 3, 2012 at 3:50 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 3, 2012 at 2:10 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 3, 2012 at 3:40 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Cinjin - January 3, 2012 at 3:47 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 3, 2012 at 4:30 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 3, 2012 at 6:46 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 4, 2012 at 9:29 am
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by LastPoet - January 4, 2012 at 10:36 am
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 10, 2012 at 3:51 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 10, 2012 at 3:59 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Violet - January 10, 2012 at 11:24 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Napoléon - January 11, 2012 at 7:45 am
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Cyberman - January 11, 2012 at 12:15 am
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Violet - January 11, 2012 at 2:19 am
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 11, 2012 at 11:00 am
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by frankiej - January 11, 2012 at 11:03 am
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Violet - January 16, 2012 at 12:35 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by frankiej - January 16, 2012 at 10:58 am
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by frankiej - January 16, 2012 at 11:06 am
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Darwinian - January 16, 2012 at 11:15 am
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 16, 2012 at 12:21 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Jackalope - January 20, 2012 at 2:16 am
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 20, 2012 at 10:15 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Jackalope - January 20, 2012 at 10:44 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 20, 2012 at 10:59 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Jackalope - January 20, 2012 at 11:49 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Napoléon - January 20, 2012 at 10:09 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 20, 2012 at 11:53 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by frankiej - January 23, 2012 at 12:18 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Jackalope - January 27, 2012 at 10:08 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 28, 2012 at 12:33 am
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 28, 2012 at 8:32 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Shell B - January 28, 2012 at 9:07 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Jackalope - February 6, 2012 at 2:13 am
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Jackalope - February 7, 2012 at 8:14 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by Faith No More - June 2, 2012 at 2:44 pm
RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support - by zentor - June 20, 2012 at 10:22 pm

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