They just answered "You have crippling depression" and they prescribed me some pills that I am currently taking every morning — javi2541997
Treatments
Bipolar disorder lasts for a lifetime, with treatments aiming at managing the symptoms bypsychotherapyand medication. — universeness
I am doing it good with the exception of going to therapy. — javi2541997
A socially isolated hermit is fine, but only if you can exist as a 'happy' one. — universeness
Therefore, is what is needed for better philosophy actually a fasting and detoxification of thought? — Xtrix
In a manner of speaking nature just forgot to add the mechanism to dumb it down again once we were safe
— Seeker
Nature didn't forget this because that's not how evolution works. And we're not even close to an evolutionary transition into a "dumber" human because we are now "safe". People have, for only around 30 years, been somewhat safe in the manner of speaking you position it. Before this, the threat of nuclear war, the threat and reality of the second world war, and then just go back in history for more and more threat level ups and downs, means people have never been "safe" and intellectually we have never been it either.
As humanity has grown into a much more complex state, where we incorporate the entire world and universe into our assessments of possible problems, we've never been in a more complex state of thinking. At this time in history, only the ignorant would position themselves as "safe", even if it's true for their own personal lives.
But what this topic is actually focusing on is more of the necessity to "breathe" and not be overwhelmed by all that thinking. The world changes faster and faster and demands a much faster pace of intellectual and rational thinking about it, so the pressure on the individual to understand and think about world complexity is increasing as the timeframe to formulate a thought around topics decreases.
So we're left with being pressured to think faster and more complex in order to be able to grasp the complexity of modern times.
Within this concept, we can definitely see a need to pause, otherwise, we become consumed with a complexity that risk breaking down our overall ability to organize internal thoughts. This is why I think we actually have positive scientific results from meditation. It is, in its essence, a way to "pause" our minds and let our critical thinking "defragment".
The complexity of today, especially the interconnected domino effect of increasing complexity as a result of clashes between cultures, classes, technology, ideology etc. that happens at an increasingly faster and faster pace, requires a mind that is much more intellectually evolved than what we have today. The only way to be able to grasp the entirety of it without going insane would be to find a way to "pause" all of that thinking. Be it with meditation or "intellectual vacation" (like shutting everything like social interactions, work, and information technology off for a while).
There are scientific results that shows very clearly the importance of "shutting off" our minds at a regular basis.
On a side note, this is why I think Nietsche became clinically insane in the end, apart from just the cancer doing it. He was clearly a man who couldn't pause thinking, it occupied his mind all the time and the incident with the horse was probably the incident that led them to discover the tumor, misdiagnosed as syphilis. So more or less, his breakdown was probably a result of a realization that the world didn't listen to what he had to say, that the world around him ignored his attempts to humanize a godless world and it shook him into a severe depression that was increasingly deepened by the realization of dying.
If anything would put someone in an insane state, it would be the realization of the futility of their thinking and the realization they would die before that thinking led to anything good in the world. The irony then, that his sister helped produce the nazi regime by corrupting all those thoughts he wished would help the world. As a fan of rational reasoning and intellectuals, she's in my opinion even worse than Hitler since Hitler just became a pawn of a self-indulgent ideology based on her corruption of an intellectual who wanted nothing but to bring sense to a senseless world. — Christoffer
A hyperactive DMN (default mode network) is not conducive to well-being, I think, and the simple solution is to engage in activities that deactivate the DMN, such as meditation, long walks on the beach, dropping acid, or whatever. It helps to relax. — praxis
Thinking is not just a kind of doing, any more than feeling is a kind of doing. — Possibility
No. We're "addicted" to beliefs. — 180 Proof
However little we know about thoughts, we can't help having them. — Manuel
I rather someone addicted to thought harming no-one, than someone addicted to action without measuring consequences. — Manuel
Thinking is not just a kind of doing, any more than feeling is a kind of doing.
— Possibility
Thinking is an activity that can (sometimes) be controlled. We’re “doing” something when we’re thinking. I mean it in this general sense. It’s not an action on par with running, but perhaps similar to speaking. — Xtrix
My view is that there is more to thinking than activity — Possibility
Speaking is always an activity: it occurs in time, or it doesn’t occur, and the difference is observable in time. — Possibility
Thinking occurs in time as well. Where do you think it takes place? Outside time?
Thinking takes place in the brain. It's a product of the human nervous system. It's not well defined, but it's certainly a human activity.
Unless of course it's magic. But I don't think it's worth discussing that possibility. — Xtrix
Noli turbare circulos meos! — Archimedes
I cannot agree that thinking is either physically confined within the brain or directly observable in time as an activity. These are probabilistic conclusions at best - a reductionist account. — Possibility
what we name ‘thinking’ is evidence of thinking, based on perceived potentiality. — Possibility
You can also observe your own thoughts. You can observe your feelings, too. These are actual phenomena, — Xtrix
But my point, I guess, is that much of our thinking amounts to nothing actually occurring. There’s nothing wrong with that, but the assumption that ‘thinking is doing’ is false, and can lead us to this addiction to thinking, a distortion that prioritises thinking over feeling and acting. — Possibility
Therefore, is what is needed for better philosophy actually a fasting and detoxification of thought? — Xtrix
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