The psychic challenge

Will PM you soon... I've been so busy.

Stress, depression, and anxiety do impede my abilities. So do antidepressants. Hell, if the moon's in the wrong phase, I can be all out of whack. lol. I think I can be the most effected person in the world sometimes.

 

Why is everyone on antidepressants (me included a while back)? I get the feeling it's as simple as being different in a society that makes you feel like you don't fit in. It's not a chemical imbalance or a biological predisposition.

 

depression is the soul's way of communicating boredom...that you have fallen off your path and/or are mis-aligned with the highest perspective. it means your outer life is out of sync with your inner groove.

 

Makes sense.

 

Did anyone get the street name? LOL! Because I'm thinking it has a B, possibly first letter, is multisyllabic. I'm also thinking R and maybe D. (Of course I could be all wrong and stuff! :^)

 

You're right about the R and the D - there is no B though. Hey, we could play hangman!

 

I'M not on antidepressants! I just keep a bottle of vodka next to my bed... After a couple of drinks, I still don't fit into society, but I just don't give a shit!

Seriously though, I partly disagree about it not being a chemical imbalance or biological predisposition. I mean, certainly depression is to be expected when we encounter certain circumstances--loss of a loved one or a job, shattering of enthusiastically held illusions, being treated like dog droppings. But I started having bouts of depression when I was only about nine years old--and I see the same tendency in one of my daughters--the one whose personality is most like mine. I explained to her once that I've fought with this all my life, and it looks like she has inherited this tendency from me. I told her that it would be great if she can handle it without help, but said if she ever wanted to talk about it, she knows that I understand what it's like, and if it ever gets too hard, there's always the option of getting help from a doctor for it.

 

Thanks so much for your praise--and I'm glad my poems gave you such a memorable experience.

At the rate I'm going, it will be a very long time before the book is finished. It's hard to write. For one thing, when I need to write about painful experiences I get too angry or depressed to work. For another I'm afraid I'll end up being stoned to death for some of the things I'm saying...

Now WAIT just a doggone minute!!! Everybody freeze...nobody leave the room!!! Did you not say you make your living as a CAD artist? So what's with this "web development" stuff???

 

Where's Vanna White when you need her? My first guess was 3 syllables but I'm going to go for the buzzer and the canned audience moan of disappointment and say that it's 2 syllables.

 

Well, actually, you're right. But in that sense, it's always a chemical imbalance. See, people misunderstand the whole nature vs. nurture thing. It's always both. It's like a lock and key. Asking whether it's environment or innate biology is like asking whether the problem with a key that doesn't fit a lock has to do with the key or the lock.

Do you have a title picked out? What's your full name? If you can give me either (or both), I'll jot it down and save it somewhere. I'll search for it every now and then.

:LOL: Can't I do both? What I do is pretty versatile. I graduated with a degree in computer programming. I'm sort of a jack of all trades, master of none. When I'm not working in AutoCAD, I'm developping websites for our projects (see www.fmsdesign.com), and when I'm not developping websites, I'm producing marketing material in Photoshop, and when I'm not producing marketing material, I'm trying to fix people's damn printers and figure out why they're not getting email. So the most encompassing title I would give myself is IT specialist.

 

The first guess is always the best - 3 syllables it is.

 

As for anti-Ds, I think they could be appropriate for some people. On the other hand a lot of those psych meds are addictive and sometimes they are associated with both inward and outward violence, and such side effects as sexual dysfunction. I think that they are also majorly overprescribed. I see it as a side effect of applying reductionism to everything, including ourselves. So much for Jung and Freud, myth and symbolism and any sort of intrinsic meaning to the human plight. All bunk. That the pharmaceutical industry is the largest in existence is just a coincidence.

I'd like to buy a vowel.

 

Yeah. I figured it had to be 3. That's why I mentioned it. :^) So I guess I get the home version of the game and a year's supply of Gainesburgers or something? Too bad I don't have a dog! Maybe I need anti-depressants.

 

"Well, actually, you're right. But in that sense, it's always a chemical imbalance. See, people misunderstand the whole nature vs. nurture thing. It's always both. It's like a lock and key. Asking whether it's environment or innate biology is like asking whether the problem with a key that doesn't fit a lock has to do with the key or the lock."

Very well put! I so agree with you on that! And I am amazed that more people do not see this! I believe that envionment is one factor which can *cause* chemical imbalance, and I think that a lot of neuroses are like steering a car crooked in order for it to go straight because something is out of alignment. In which case meds can be like resetting the steering wheel so that it's always at an angle!

 

This line of thought is a bit like the thinking of an old and mostly forgotten Scottish psychiatrist named R. D. Laing, who published several books, including his seminal work entitled "The Politics of Experience." One of his ideas is that neurosis/psychosis is a last-ditch adaptation to a dysfunctional environment.

Obviousy it's both...the point that I was trying to make is that some people--such as myself and my daughter--are more susceptible to a depressive response to our experience than others. But of course, our experiences influence our brain chemistry also--in the final analysis, experience becomes chemistry, doesn't it? But don't forget that chemistry also becomes experience... this is one of the major paradoxes I seem to be trying to unravel in this life.

 

I do have a title picked out...and I believe it's such a good one that I don't want to risk posting it here on a website where copyrights are in a questionable status. But you can find my full name on my poetry website. Google that, and you can find out a great deal about me...leave out my middle name, and you can find out even more.

Okay fine, you can do both, Gib. Actually your job sounds like a lot of fun. I'm a computer programmer too...though I got here by way of a biochemistry degree and a technical/medical writing career. In my spare time I've been developing a plugin for a computer game...and trying to write this damn book.

 

Maybe I can help you with that - that's sort of my "specialty" as a philosopher. Not saying I have all the answers... just a theory. While your busy finishing your book, I'm busy trying to finish mine. It'll actually be a website explaining all my philosophies on mind and brain, and it gives a direct and straight forward answer to that question - chemicals or experiences: what begets what?

 

Totally. I believe that there are cases for medication, although I think that you are saying more than that. What may be my one absolute in life is that I don't believe in absolutes. I would certainly say that the temptation of reductionism to oversimplify perceptions to fit the model is a mistake in the case of the human plight.

 

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Okay then! Please send me the link when it's done.