Depression, Anxiety & Mental Illness

Depression, Anxiety & Mental Illness Jul 22, 2017 17:03:58 GMT

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Post by OldSamVimes on Jul 22, 2017 17:03:58 GMT

Jul 22, 2017 16:54:42 GMT @merrida100 said:

Jul 20, 2017 7:13:48 GMT OldSamVimes said:

I work with people who suffer from anxiety and depression, my advice...

1. Limit your exposure to news.

2. Look up 'Radical Acceptance' and 'Mindfulness' as it pertains to DBT.

3. Practice some kind of meditation.

4. Seek out things that make you feel awe. I read an article last year that said it's impossible to feel anxiety and depression at the same time you're feeling awe. The vastness of the universe, the amazing implications of quantum physics... find something.

5. Similar to #4. Notice when you're focusing your attention inward on yourself and focus it outward. Do something nice for other people, get out of your own head.

Good luck.

this is interesting because I read quantum physics books to calm me down. It feels, though, more like because it's so heady and involved, so inclusive, that I'm not really able to give the anxiety as much attention. I read way too many physics books "for pleasure" than what's probably considered normal. But good to know it works for others too.

I like to think about things like the spaces between molecules in an object being comparatively as large as the spaces between planets in our solar system.

And that the harder an object is, the faster it is moving. So just like you can't throw an egg through a helicopter blade you can't push your finger through a rock because the rock is moving too fast.

Our senses tune out vast amounts of what's really going on around us for the benefit of our survival.

Existence is so wonderfully absurd. At some point you will see a breathtaking scene of natural beauty and you'll realize you're actually looking into a mirror.