(April 1, 2014 at 8:17 pm)KUSA Wrote: I still feel that most people that say they are depressed just need some self discipline and a different perspective on life. I say this because of my personal struggles.
But you can't base how you think others should act simply upon your own experiences. The brain is complex, and people are diversely hardwired. This means you can't judge how well someone should cope with their emotions.
I mean, I agree that, as a society, we've become a bunch of whiny pussies that our ancestors would laugh at, and it seems that without death looming around every corner, we focus on the trivial. But that doesn't mean one can reasonably expect that others ought to have the ability to cope with situations as well as they have based on nothing more than their own experiences.
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
