But this is, I think, incorrect Our society has a MASSIVE bias toward action vs. inaction, toward looking and acting busy even when you have no basis for making any kind of informed decision to act
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I'm not even fully comfortable committing to actually saying this without irony but what I am saying is that "depression brain" should be respected, it should get a vote In our society right now it's just fully suppressed as disordered, damaged thinking
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Our society right now is fully in thrall to what Buddhism calls the "monkey mind", the voice of FOMO Christ they're trying to make "Yes Day" a thing, that stupid meme that they made the Jim Carrey movie Yes Man about -- "What if you had a day where you said yes to everything?"
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Yeah, I once summed up Buddhism’s answer to the question of “why do bad things happen?” as “because you keep doing shit. Stop that.”
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The only way to win, as they say, is not to play It's true of any negative-sum game -- any game where the house takes a vig -- and in a world subject to entropy and chaos, life itself is such a game
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You are wrong, and you are the example of why. You are extremely attached to your self image of being depressed.
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I would say this was kind of rude and intrusive if I hadn't been exactly there and it feels like ~insight into the nature of reality~ but it wasn't a very good insight if it got kicked into the bushes by an SNRI
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