Pain is a problem-solving thermostat. If you feel good enough, you have no reason to solve problems. In fact, a good mood makes people more generous with their resources, which most people would still feel they needed to solve real problems. If you feel bad enough, you see so many problems you think you're drowning. Somewhere in the middle everyday ( Read more... )

Take things reading by the smooth handle. Break linearity if you have to. I like reading backwards. If you get bored or frustrated, skip ahead. Look at pictures. Remind yourself of the outline. The more difficult bits fall into place after you've understood the easy bits. Some things you won't understand are errors. Nothing is perfectly written, ( Read more... )

I feel a lot of loyalty to people who are more depressed than I am. Sometimes when I've been doing better for a while, I start to see them the way most of the world does, and I think they are somehow bringing their misery on themselves. I feel I am on the edge of a 1, 2, 3 that will dispel depression for anyone, and they just don't know about it ( Read more... )

Tantalus could have closed his eyes, swallowed, and taken a deep breath. Sisyphus could have stuck out his middle finger at the rock, turned around, and walked away. A benevolent dictator knowing the game and its score (having created it) would have admired each man's personality and independence, would have searched His Soul for a moment and said ( Read more... )

I wonder if I have a mood disorder so much as I'm always in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"Too many sheep and not enough shepherds. Let's all sit back and have a long hard think, then make something different! We can all do it, surely?"
Aphex Twin

My mother is looking for her flash drive again. At least she's being nice about it this time. Baby steps.

Sure you have a right to a false belief, but are you sure you want to shut down when someone tells you why it's false? Isn't that just talking? Isn't it just like saying bud, that used car deal sounds okay, but I know a much better place? Why would you freak out unless you were heavily invested, and if you were heavily invested why wouldn't you ( Read more... )

Well, I've read 1.5 chapters out of 3 for tomorrow, and I have much of tomorrow to do the rest. That's a lot better than zipola ( Read more... )

I put myself in this weird catch-22 with social situations. When I don't really care, it doesn't seem worth putting myself through all the mess. And when I do care, I tend to get so anxious that I won't. There are many times somewhere in between: I want to do something, but then I get really anxious, I think it would be pretty embarrassing and ( Read more... )