more prattling about pointless things

[rhaenburger]

I feel the need to write about this! DEAL

A guy I sort of know on Twitter and I got to talking about jealousy/envy. I used to have pretty insane jealousy issues- still do, although not at the moment or nearly as much. I just feel the need to express my opinion on the nature of these emotions because I can. :D

So if you've seen the movie Equilibrium

Comments

[avon_deer]

I get jealous of the people at work who can outperform me. :D

[rhaenburger]

Pff, you're a deer, you can't be outperformed!

[chris_sawyer]

I get continually bitched out because I advise people to stay away from things like prozac.

Your thoughts and emotions are all that you really have, and what, you want the world to take those away from you too?

I was certainly a candidate for prozac, but I decided to just try and temper myself, and try and force my brain chemistry to sort it's self out.

And you know what? I largely succeeded. The thing is, everyone wants to just take a pill, and do the least ammount of effort to solve their problems.

But if you want a better way, like the examples you mentioned, you put the personal effort in to better yourself, and you eventually get what you want without sacrificing your emotions.

[hossblacksilver]

Makes me think of Serenity.

Dr. Caron: These are just a few of the images we've recorded. And you can see, it wasn't what we thought. There's been no war here and no terraforming event. The environment is stable. It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die.

[rhaenburger]

Serenity. <3

[rhaenburger]

I concur. :3

Back in the day, I had some depression/anxiety issues that went along with this jealousy shenanigans. Every time I tried a pill to fix my problems, it just caused MORE problems, to the point where I had a loaded gun and a bad thing could've happened. HOWEVER ever since trying to improve myself holistically, I've felt a million times better, and grown in the process. While I was depressed, and still get that way sometimes, I really don't feel like I have any sort of chemical imbalance that contributes to my emotions, so these pills weren't solving anything. It was mental blocks and hurdles that I needed to cross.

This may not be the case for everyone, I do know folks who're genuinely helped out by medication, but I believe that their issues are physiological, while mine were more or less psychosomatic. :3