He spent so much time in bed and felt flat and without any meaning. This seems to me to be the ultimate expression of nihilism. — Jack Cummins
When you just observe the beauty of the latest week's beautiful scandinavian sunrises and sunsets, you get pretty ecstatic in the progress. Or if you listen to certain parts of "Down Down" with Quo. What does saving the world really add?I do agree that it is possible to be ecstatic as a nihilist. However, I believe that it is complicated because for some the nihilism leads to suicidal despair. Some people with despair over lack of meaning in life do present to mental health services, looking for possible interventions. We could ask to what extent is despair a mental health problem? — Jack Cummins
That's not the conclusion of the study cited. Even a cursory read shows that. — Isaac
We are agree that nihilism and depression are completely different but in some cases depression somehow can drive you to nihilist ideas.
It will depend in the stimulus because I guess when you are having an active life (work, studies, friends, etc...) it is quite difficult to experience nihilism. I was the opposite. I remember wasting a lot of time of worth living in my nihilism era. When I change my mind and discovering other motivations, nihilism started being something from the "past" — javi2541997
@Jack CumminsBut I am not sure how ECT would address nihilism.
If one simlpy likes living, going to ones not-so-fantastic job, do whats needed in the family and then just chill, driving ones wife half crazy by saying no to all fany plans for the future, does that qualify a guy to the ranks of the soft nihilists?The soft nihilist says there are no transcendent values, no external source of meaning, nothing. I am free to invent myself. This could be considered exciting. — Tom Storm
When I worked in an acute admissions unit, a lot of the staff were very judgemental in their attitude and the term 'PD' was often used by some of the staff in a critical tone. — Jack Cummins
f one simlpy likes living, going to ones not-so-fantastic job, do whats needed in the family and then just chill, driving ones wife half crazy by saying no to all fany plans for the future, does that qualify a guy to the ranks of the soft nihilists? — Ansiktsburk
Suffering and stressors are essential factors of human life and I don't think we should get rid of them if they're nothing detrimental to us. — Nagel
We could ask to what extent is despair a mental health problem? — Jack Cummins
many people who have complex traumatic history get given the label of borderline personality disorder. Have you come across this approach to trauma in the labelling by some professionals? — Jack Cummins
do you not think that prevention is even better than cure? — unenlightened
Therapy can sometimes have the social function of making social problems into personal ones, in rather the way cholera treatments of old failed to address the sanitation problems of crowded living in cities, that led to the frequent epidemics. — unenlightened
This movement went out of fashion, probably because it underplayed the reality of mental illness. However, the antipsychiatry movement does offer some insight for critical thinking about the way psychiatric labels are applied to individuals. — Jack Cummins
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