Possessions don't matter and having a sense of independence and control in your life is self-realized.
The world doesn't owe you anything. Find a reason for living and enjoy your life, because you'll eventually look back and wonder where all the time went. I think the most rewarding thing in life is the connection you make with others. Find others that share your same passions and ideals and rejoice.
Bringing others down with these whiny posts solves nothing.
hippys/boomers gutted the ecomomy giving themselves benifits [I got them thanks].
kids are paying
you have brack president
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Ole Timer wrote:
As for me, I continue to live phone-free. And I left my lucrative IT practice several years ago to being a second career as a ditch digger. It's hard, but rewarding work. My wife makes $8,000 a month on the computer though, so we get by just fine.
Is her name Faye?
I personally think it's people not spending enough time outside and too much time sitting down looking at screens not interacting properly with anyone. So, a combination of things people have previously mentioned. I've seen 10 year old kids with mental illnesses with no previous trauma, cutting themselves, etc. Something is really going wrong somewhere.
I read an article ages ago about dogs misbehaving and then when the owner started taking them outside for hours a day the dogs were happier. Not sure if this applies to us!
agip wrote:
Has to be noted wrote:Your post could only be written by someone who has not witnessed real mental illness up close and personal.
Sure there is a bunch of nonsense going around about folks who are 'depressed'. But if you think that people with schizophrenia or severe bipolar disorder are "So bored that they develop 'mental illness' and the docs are all to willing to diagnose as such" then you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
Seriously, I'm not trying to pick on you. But you really don't have any clue at all.
oh come on - clearly neither HRE nor Wiggum is talking about hard core mental illness.
Sp, what part of 'I've always felt mental illness exists because we allow it to' do you not understand?
Dumb. You are dumb if you think someone with severe depression or bipolar is going to have an episode BECAUSE they have no job. That's like saying you got a cold because you lost your job. Chemical imbalances in the brain can cause a person who just got a job promotion to feel suicidal.
It's my belief that it takes depression in order to understand success and to not take the important things in life. As runners, we have the opportunity to go through this at a much younger age than the average person. This includes coming up short of our goals and not being able to do what we love in the case of injury. It also allows us to understand the importance of intrinsic motivation in dedicating ourselves to something.
Liberalism and the feminization of society
Judging by the common tone of threads on this message board, young people (especially white males) need to stop thinking the world is conspiring against them. They should be more responsible for their successes and failures and stop looking to blame other people when things go wrong. Having a mindset of the world being against you is bound to lead to depressive thoughts.
If you have had the privilege in life to consider becoming college educated then you have had every opportunity you need to live a happy and fulfilling life.
As a white male I can confirm this.
I never had to work for anything, all things were just simply given to me.
Inevitable result of a sick, capitalist, society where everything we are told is a lie to benefit the sociopaths who run things at our expense.
But go ahead, blame it on the average person
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
HDT wrote:
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
That's the English way.
Has to be noted wrote:
agip wrote:oh come on - clearly neither HRE nor Wiggum is talking about hard core mental illness.
Sp, what part of 'I've always felt mental illness exists because we allow it to' do you not understand?
so your thesis is: wiggum believes schizophrenia and bipolar are caused by being bored.
Maybe you want to revisit that - I'd be shocked if that was what he meant.
I think he was just talking about feelings of ennui and boredom that get 'diagnosed' as depression and onto the drugs you go.
Cicirunner wrote:
Possessions don't matter and having a sense of independence and control in your life is self-realized.
The world doesn't owe you anything. Find a reason for living and enjoy your life, because you'll eventually look back and wonder where all the time went. I think the most rewarding thing in life is the connection you make with others. Find others that share your same passions and ideals and rejoice.
Bringing others down with these whiny posts solves nothing.
+1. This sounds about right.
agip wrote:
Has to be noted wrote:Sp, what part of 'I've always felt mental illness exists because we allow it to' do you not understand?
so your thesis is: wiggum believes schizophrenia and bipolar are caused by being bored.
Maybe you want to revisit that - I'd be shocked if that was what he meant.
I think he was just talking about feelings of ennui and boredom that get 'diagnosed' as depression and onto the drugs you go.
It is possible that you are right.
It is certain that one should say what one means.
Some excerpts:
"The essence of the problem is that young people face a severe shortage of good jobs. It has taken almost five years after the supposed end of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 to finally get back the number of jobs lost. But that does not take into account the growth in the labor force since then."
"To get back to the same employment levels as before the recession, between 13.5 and 15 million new jobs would need to be created by the end of this decade. That's a minimum of 200,000 jobs per month, which is 50,000 more jobs a month than the average since 2009."
"How does this affect young people entering the job market? Nearly 40% of recent college graduates are "underemployed," i.e., working in low-wage retail, restaurant, or other service jobs that don't require a college degree, don't put their skills to work, or provide opportunities for further learning and development, according to Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Analysis. Such jobs pay wages that are hardly sufficient to meet their college debt payments, much less start a career or a family. And the evidence is clear: Starting off this way results in significant, even permanent damage to their incomes and careers."
Thoughts?
Has to be noted wrote:
agip wrote:so your thesis is: wiggum believes schizophrenia and bipolar are caused by being bored.
Maybe you want to revisit that - I'd be shocked if that was what he meant.
I think he was just talking about feelings of ennui and boredom that get 'diagnosed' as depression and onto the drugs you go.
It is possible that you are right.
It is certain that one should say what one means.
What agip said. Thought I was being clear about what I meant.
AnswerProvider wrote:
Nearly 40% of recent college graduates are "underemployed," i.e., working in low-wage retail, restaurant, or other service jobs that don't require a college degree, don't put their skills to work, or provide opportunities for further learning and development, ...
The idea that many college grads have of "putting their skills to work" is a pipe dream. One of the first steps in the Acceptance stage of overcoming post-college depression is to give up the dream of ever using your educational background. Jobs such as Chemist, Geologist, Mathematician, Physicist, Historian, Statistician, Psychologist, Biologist, Political Scientist, etc., do exist, but in very small numbers (and require a Ph.D). There aren't as many related jobs out there, either. Take a look around and you'll see, for example, Chemistry grads competing for a $12/hr job cleaning beakers, because they're afraid of moving away from the real of Chemistry and feeling like their education was a waste.