mental breakdown

has anyone else ever had a mental breakdown from just thinking about the world? like all the horrible things in the world? [war, murder, cruelty, hatred, etc] i feel kinda over dramatic when this happens but i really cant help it..

 

Maybe if more people would, it would be a better world? :cheers2:

 

that made me smile. thank you. :]

 

All the time.
Eventually you come out the other end and start to enjoy the misery.

 

Now go watch "A Big Fish" and get all overly emotional about the finer points in life (Such a good movie, but hey, I'm a Pisces. )

 

Welcome to the First Noble Truth.
Peace Out,
Rev J

 

so i just thought i was better and then of course let it be comes on and bam im crying again.


And when the broken hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be.

 

I probably have. I guess you would be more specific when you say "mental breakdown", I didn't go absolutely insane or anything.

 

and thus your name eh?

 

i do. at least, i get what you're saying. it's very difficult for me sometimes. and it's very easy to get discouraged.

but as reverend JC said, it is the first noble truth. birth, old age, death, suffering, are all unavoidable.

i don't presume to offer advice, but it helps me to remember we are all just atoms, we all come from one mother, and that loving works. it is difficult to embrace the world because it hurts you, but perseverance brings you closer and closer to it. <3 eace:

as an aside, i get depressed easily and have temporal lobe epilepsy, not bad enough that it colours all of my views of things, but enough so that i get emotional about rather a lot, so i have difficulty trusting my own judgements. i take my thoughts with a grain of salt.

 

It gets me down and I hate a lot of things that are happening in the world. But I wouldn't say it was close to a mental breakdown.

 

I believe that the Dalai Lama wrote a book on the 4 noble truths. Yeah the first one is depressing but you can trancend it.

Peace Out,
Rev J

 

Sometimes it helps me to take a long walk. A hike in the mountains is especially good, where you see that the animals and the trees are not worried about anything that is in the news.

 

:] thanks. that does help.
i'm sorry to hear about your temporal lobe epilepsy. i looked up what it is and it sounds scary. :[
i get depressed easily as well but its cause im way over emotional about everything. but the thing you said about coming from one mother does help a bit. so thanks. eace:

 

hmm i dont know very much about the 4 noble truths but i shall look into it. :] thanks.

 

that sounds amazing.
i'm gonna try to do that today.
i cant go to the mountains but theres this huge area behind this park thats pretty cool to walk around in.
there are a lot of trees and stuff.
and your completely right, animals and trees dont care about whats going on and they dont pollute the earth or start huge wars. yet people get this idea that we are somehow better than animals and trees, like we're better than nature. i really dont get that. :[

 

I love getting out into the mountains when I'm feeling down, it's so peaceful to see animals living happily. For a while when I am in the middle of nowhere, I forget what's happening in the world to

 

We're not better than them, but I wouldn't want to spend all my time in the woods. The conversations can get dull.

Your head can get fucked up if you spend too much time away from natural things.

 

i'm going to move to the mountains someday. and live completely separate from society. like i will have nothing to do with anything going on so i wont have to think about it. i guess thats kinda like running away from things but its that or stay here and die from emotional instability. :[

 

Back home, I am right in the middle of a national park, with some of the best mountains in the UK. It's absolutley beautiful Most times, you won't even meet another person.