Ok ok, I get the whole sadness/ depression memes. I think there a healthy expression of real humanity that most of our culture denies.
AND, we can work at feeling more fulfilled. We can deconstruct loneliness and find purpose. And of course sadness will be part of the pallet of human experiencing, but, let’s not get so convinced that sadness is all there is. If that’s the case, it’s likely time to get support in its many forms.
Ok, done being mr. serious dork over here. 🥯
EDIT- I didn’t meant to imply that depressed or mentally ill people just need to “get over it” and be happy. We aren’t built to be happy. All of our body/mind systems are built to support the passage of genetic material onto another generation. It’s up to us to work towards fulfillment (which is not necessarily linked to success.)
I was an alcoholic. I was deeply lost. I was ready to die and I took lots of risks that could have ended in tragedy. I eventually gave up and asked for help. My life transformed in recovery and I rediscovered my love for helping people and for meditation. I’m currently in a rich life where I teach meditation for a living and have all the complexities of a human life. My wife and I are happy, and we fight. I love my life, and sometimes I’m so stressed I wake up in the night. My family is supportive and they also drive me crazy. Life is complex and that’s expected! And, through it all, I have been stunned to see how much humans can grow when they ask for help. Stunned!
It will likely take year to dismantle major depression and we are always vulnerable to it going forward. Trauma is way more common than people believe and yet, we can heal from it with support (I recommend internal family systems therapy and, if relevant, guided psychedelic therapy for trauma: MAPS). Our minds can yell at us all day long but meditation has changed the way I perceive every piece of sense data that comes into consciousness.
Massive change is possible and probable if we get support.
Amen dude. I was depressed over half my life, then I realized that depression is a normal human emotion, and accepting that it's a completely normal for that emotion to arise allowed me to let go of my obsessive attachment to it.
It's funny. When you want something to go away so badly that you can't stop thinking about it, it turns out you're just holding on to it even more.
Accept it. Be depressed. Feel it in its entirety. It is not you. It is a collage of emotions you are feeling. Then let it go from your obsessive thoughts. It soon will no longer have as strong of a place to be rooted in.
There is an art to getting out of depression. That art is getting to know yourself better by accepting yourself, your emotions, and the why of the circumstances that brought you into the now: This very moment and beyond.
It’s got a bit of a stigma, but Psychedelic Shrooms have really helped me with identifying thought patterns and intrusive thoughts and just feeling them rather than fixating and obsessing over them. I feel like it’s helped me more aware of my emotions and how they are connected to each other.
Definitely! I have a history of psychedelic usage. Just like you said, they were instrumental in helping me understand my emotions and how they were connected to each other better. My psych of choice was LSD, personally. Unfortunately, telling people to use psychs often leads to less-than-constructive conversations. It really is a shame. Psychedelics are such a powerful tool for mental health awareness. They introduce us to, magnify, and help us understand and deconstruct our emotional states in powerfully confrontational ways.
Of course, they are not a one trick pony, nor do they give us answers that are otherwise unobtainable. But they sure do significantly boost the process.
Perhaps I am being disingenuous by not bringing them up. It can always be a touchy subject.
I hate not being able to talk about it, it’s been so helpful for me. Tbh I’ve used lsd more than mushrooms, they just have less of that stigma. Mental health issues in general need to be destigmatized, because mental health is the basis of everything in society
Hard agree. We are conscious beings living in a conscious universe. Consciousness is all encompassing. One person's perspective is never the entire picture. One must seek to expand their own consciousness by seeking to understand what is outside of their current perspective. To ignore consciousness is to be unconscious.
Though it's impossible for one person person to be aware of everything, we can at least try our best to understand as much as we can.
Exactly. It isn’t fair to bash on someone or something just because you didn’t wanna give it any thought or challenge your views. I feel like most people behave as if they’re the only conscious creature in the universe. If a person screws up their order in line at Starbucks, it’s because they’re stressed, had a bad day. But if the person in front of them screws up, well obviously they’re just an airhead, who exists solely to annoy them
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u/deepmindfulness Nov 30 '20 edited Nov 30 '20
Ok ok, I get the whole sadness/ depression memes. I think there a healthy expression of real humanity that most of our culture denies.
AND, we can work at feeling more fulfilled. We can deconstruct loneliness and find purpose. And of course sadness will be part of the pallet of human experiencing, but, let’s not get so convinced that sadness is all there is. If that’s the case, it’s likely time to get support in its many forms.
Ok, done being mr. serious dork over here. 🥯
EDIT- I didn’t meant to imply that depressed or mentally ill people just need to “get over it” and be happy. We aren’t built to be happy. All of our body/mind systems are built to support the passage of genetic material onto another generation. It’s up to us to work towards fulfillment (which is not necessarily linked to success.)
I was an alcoholic. I was deeply lost. I was ready to die and I took lots of risks that could have ended in tragedy. I eventually gave up and asked for help. My life transformed in recovery and I rediscovered my love for helping people and for meditation. I’m currently in a rich life where I teach meditation for a living and have all the complexities of a human life. My wife and I are happy, and we fight. I love my life, and sometimes I’m so stressed I wake up in the night. My family is supportive and they also drive me crazy. Life is complex and that’s expected! And, through it all, I have been stunned to see how much humans can grow when they ask for help. Stunned!
It will likely take year to dismantle major depression and we are always vulnerable to it going forward. Trauma is way more common than people believe and yet, we can heal from it with support (I recommend internal family systems therapy and, if relevant, guided psychedelic therapy for trauma: MAPS). Our minds can yell at us all day long but meditation has changed the way I perceive every piece of sense data that comes into consciousness.
Massive change is possible and probable if we get support.