If we fail to get out of boredom what do we face? — TiredThinker
It seems "traumatic stress" is so powerful because it forces the person to face moral quandaries for which they were not prepared for. — baker
Not really. If you look at public mental health campaigns in most Western countries the advice is defiantly not to shut up. It is the opposite. Usually it's, go see someone and talk to them about it - a doctor, a therapist, and shop around to get someone you click with and is actually helpful. Many big employers in my country offer free counselling to anyone who is dealing with trauma or grief and loss or depression. A lot of investment in this work was generated because of alarming suicide rates. — Tom Storm
It seems this has always been the main approach most people used, and used a lot.
Remember, for the greater part of human history, human life was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". And yet people somehow made it through it. Given the rich art history they've left behind, it seems they managed somehow. Perhaps they even coped better than we do, perhaps because their expectations about life were lower than ours — baker
Much of talk therapy is aimed at getting people to accept their condition rather than cure it: learning to live with your problems instead of finding solutions for them. — Agent Smith
Not sure where you are or what you may have experienced, but based on what I've seen you're describing the opposite of today's approach and talk therapy is just one term - I am assuming by that you mean by counselling, which may not be 'therapeutic' but about problem solving and solutions focused to name key approaches). It's a big world out there. — Tom Storm
In current society, depression is a naturally reaction to unnatural circumstances. It's not caused by an imbalance of chemicals, neurotransmitters, or whatever. — EugeneW
That's the cause of depression. It's not that the imbalance is caused by some internal defect, but more an external defect. — EugeneW
It's not caused by an imbalance of chemicals, neurotransmitters, or whatever. — EugeneW
Rather, many chemicals are involved, working both inside and outside nerve cells. — javi2541997
Are you really sure of such statement? According to Harvard Health Publishing (HHP) :
To be sure, chemicals are involved in this process [depression], but it is not a simple matter of one chemical being too low and another too high. Rather, many chemicals are involved, working both inside and outside nerve cells. There are millions, even billions, of chemical reactions that make up the dynamic system that is responsible for your mood, perceptions, and how you experience life. — javi2541997
Eugene, would you really let us down because you do not want to share your intelligence? — javi2541997
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