I also wrote a blog post about depression a while ago. It's serious stuff! http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-few-thoughts-on-depression.html …
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It felt like a miracle when I found a psychologist last week who a) took my insurance b) seemed like a possible fit. Water into wine? 8 nights of oil? Got nothing on an in-network shrink.
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I am legitimately curious why this isn't seen as a major crisis by psychiatrists, psychologists, and the counseling professions.
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Same. I’m probably going to be working on a piece about this some time in the near future.
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Something that I'm all too familiar with, and I appreciate you retweeting it. BUT, the sad truth is that we really can't give ourselves a break even if we wanted to. If grad school is bad, having a tenure clock tick on you can and does drive you insane, literally. :(
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One of the greatest irony, I thought, about depression is that the best way out of it is "work," if you don't think about the consequences. Some of the best ideas I had came out of being depressed, but once you try to turn them into papers for submission, worry about... 1/
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their effect on your CV, and so forth, then things spiral back down. Keeping yourself busy for the sake of being busy in the short term and without feeling pressured about the long term is the best way out, I think. 2/
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The problem is that, if you have deadlines, and seemingly everything matters on meeting those deadlines, you can't just work for work's sake. Then the narrative "I'll never make it!" becomes dominant--not "irrationally," but very natural, in a way, in Becker-esque sense. 3/
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Depressed people, I think, generally don't need a break from "work"--if anything, it helps, as long as it can act as a distraction. But the consequences of the said work, however, they need a break from. 4/
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