World Mental Heath Day

 Focus on the workplace here.

infinite loop

"A victim mentality is the ingenious cloak of self-betrayal. The character never develops. The story never ends - an infinite loop of personal hell."
- J. Mike Fields

las vegas tunnel people

on substance abuse

"Reality is an acquired taste."
- Matthew Perry [born 1969]

embarrassing

"It got to the point where I was so isolated with my work, music that I became socially awkward, strange. But I recovered. I integrated back into society through mixing , circulating"
- John Legend [born 1978] who is an EGOT by winning and Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony.

civil war veteran

“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”

– Ambrose Bierce [1842-1914]

how are you?

 "I'm mentally ill and it keeps me pretty busy."

fear, helplessness, horror

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD] has two components: One is having been in an extremely stressful situation, and secondly, having reacted to it with an intense emotional response.

we are beasts of burden

"If (humans) are not provided with a place where they can accept social and individual responsibility they degenerate and die." 
- University of Toronto Clinical Psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson [born 1962]

It's 'just" anxiety

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Monk Junk

Buddhist contemporized anecdote circa 500BC:

A car horn beeps and forces you to leave depression for that instant. The point of meditation is to continually work to expand that instant. Depression doesn't have to be terminal if you work continually on eliminating it.

(Provided by former Monk Jim Vuylsteke}

It's what's now called "neuroplasticity" i.e. you can remake your brain. One man had Alzheimer's and couldn't walk. But by focusing intensely on each trembling, modest step over time he's now able to sprint. He's maybe one in many millions, but he rewired neural circuits.

modern society

"As affluence goes up, suicide and depression rates go up."
- Sebastian Junger promoting Tribe

on depression