Date Posted:14:20:33 02/14/08 Thu Author: Michael Subject: Re: a bit depressed In reply to:
BrianD
's message, "Re: a bit depressed" on 23:06:27 02/13/08 Wed
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>>our state of mind fascinates me. Why do I sometimes
>>feel 'up' and other times 'down'? Sometimes it can be
>>the situation, but sometimes its just looking at the
>>same situation through a different perspective. What
>>is the trigger that causes a mind to 'flip' from
>>positive to negative?
>
>Repetition can be a cause, but generally for me it's
>when I start thinking about any number of depressing
>things that one can think about in this world. Being
>in philosophy sometimes doesn't help either, but I get
>out of that by convincing myself that it's better to
>know.
>
>I really like the idea that you can change yourself
>and your situation for the better if you just change
>the way you look at yourself. For example, being
>depressed about your weight makes losing it way harder
>than a positive attitude towards it would make it. I
>highly recommend the movie "What the bleep do we know"
>if you're at all interested in this. Starts off a bit
>labored, but really comes together at the end.
><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399877/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399877/</a>
Ive seen it. Its ok, and I generally agreed with much of it, as far as I can remember (I saw it a while ago) but it seemed a bit simplistic almost condescending for much of the time. I have a friend who raved about it so we all sat through it one evening.
