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I think comparing depression with a broken leg or foot would be apter in this case. Anyway, I fail to see your point here.
December 30, 2016 at 18:25
Notice how there has to be something against which the "anti" prefix in "anti-depressant" to be opposed towards. My point is that there's no point in ...
December 30, 2016 at 01:13
Why don't the visits help? Depression usually takes a long time to treat and get better. I tend to always feel better despite taking so many medicatio...
December 30, 2016 at 00:09
You know it's Wittgenstein, right?
December 29, 2016 at 18:04
What about 9/11? I have a strong feeling that people decided that the ruling elite should be left to their own after 9/11 and let lesser people concer...
December 29, 2016 at 17:13
Not explicitly. However, there is a negative implicit connotation with being depressed in society, especially in the workplace. Indeed, in the U.S whe...
December 29, 2016 at 16:43
The thing is the medical professionals don't entirely have an answer to that question themselves. I am often astonished at the power of the placebo ef...
December 28, 2016 at 14:35
Yes, I tend to agree with everything you've just said. Is this all an issue of the population or something more explicit like not having some incentiv...
December 28, 2016 at 14:29
But take for example the fact that SSRI's and placebos have about the same efficacy. Meaning, that there is a vague line between distinguishing clinic...
December 28, 2016 at 14:24
What's more, how can someone know what the truth is when fed all of this propaganda and manufactured consent throughout their lives? The only option i...
December 28, 2016 at 13:49
I think the real issue is that people, in general, don't even care about 'truth', however presented or formulated. Truth keeps on changing and evolvin...
December 28, 2016 at 10:50
It's interesting that society disapproves of depression, as something that must be 'treated'... In other countries, it's even shameful to admit that o...
December 28, 2016 at 10:21
I think, subconsciously I have been living a nihilistic life. Nihilism quite literally leaves no room for developing self-esteem, in anything, includi...
December 28, 2016 at 09:56
What exactly about clinical depression is wrong about it? Why place a value judgment on such a condition?
December 28, 2016 at 06:00
What other source is there? Are you talking about maladaptive beliefs? The point I want to emphasize is that thinking of depression as exclusively som...
December 28, 2016 at 05:50
That's interesting due to depression sometimes being called by its other name 'learned helplessness'. I have many desires, one of which is to be rich ...
December 28, 2016 at 05:26
So does having a broken leg. Berating yourself over it won't make it any better, would it?
December 28, 2016 at 04:51
Yea, I have no idea what self-esteem is after asking this question. It seems like one of those egotistical concepts that can never be fully actualized...
December 28, 2016 at 03:52
So, off the top of my head... What good this internal nagging voice do a person any good? "I'm bad at this." "I don't understand it, therefore XYZ." "...
December 19, 2016 at 23:13
So, what you're essentially saying that much like a Chinese finger trap, the harder you fight with this ever observant and infallible God from the Old...
December 19, 2016 at 07:23
What does one say to the all powerful internal critic, who more often than not abuses you and your confidence level to cope with tasks? Is it a result...
December 19, 2016 at 04:43
Yes, but I am talking about something that comes before work/working on one's self. Namely that there is a certain goal towards which one strives. The...
December 17, 2016 at 18:49
Interesting. The last book I finished and meditated over was Viktor Frankl's, Man's Search for Meaning. It was a nice book; but, very daft in terms of...
December 17, 2016 at 17:52
Sorry to arrive late to your post; but, I slept over what you said and have some questions that need answering. I am so self-important in that regard,...
December 17, 2016 at 16:27
Just as an interesting side note. One can see the torture that one goes through when confronting one's self with having/maintaining a high sense of se...
December 17, 2016 at 16:18
Understood, however, you seem to contradict yourself with asserting that there is such a thing as a 'true' sense of self-esteem. Where have I missed y...
December 17, 2016 at 16:08
Here's an interesting thought that occurred to me. If self-esteem is dependent on what others think of one's self, then why not just say fuck it and d...
December 17, 2016 at 16:00
I took the liberty of underlining all the "work" phrases you have included in your reply. How is it that work itself is something that will bring... h...
December 17, 2016 at 15:51
Ahh, a perverted form of the naturalistic fallacy as I understand it. However, this does not seem to be an exclusive thing that philosophers do... Tak...
December 17, 2016 at 15:44
There are no such things as an "objective view of their own existence." If one believes so then they will be inclined to start believing in their supe...
December 17, 2016 at 05:59
I'm interested in if anyone has heard of the term "ego boundaries". Ego boundaries in a person with high self-esteem are well defined along with a dee...
December 17, 2016 at 05:37
A square circle. They exist in Godelian space.
December 15, 2016 at 03:25
Anything is possible after Trump won. Are we living in the best of possible worlds?
December 14, 2016 at 02:21
I'm just waiting until Schwarzenegger becomes prez. Duu-it-nauu!
December 14, 2016 at 01:07
I don't play ranked. I just play normals with Tryn all the time. I must have 200k points on him, LOL.
December 13, 2016 at 03:43
League of Legends mostly. Don't really want to invest time in other games. nanners
December 12, 2016 at 03:17
This is a quote from the text provided by tom, How does Deutsch know this? Surely, this is a strong assumption that would require some exhaustive tech...
December 11, 2016 at 00:29
Well, I'm a platonist. Anyhow, mathematics seems to be the language of the universe and indispensable when describing reality. Ask any scientist.
December 10, 2016 at 10:25
The human brain is not an object, albeit a very complex one?
December 10, 2016 at 03:45
But, the laws of physics are the same for all of us and we occupy the same space. So, hypothetically we are all experiencing the same history of the w...
December 09, 2016 at 02:58
I may be uneducated on the matter; but, why is this timeline where I'm asking these questions apparent to me and not any other? I'm not sure if I'm be...
December 09, 2016 at 01:44
Why can't I be in the possible world where I played the lottery and won? Common!
December 07, 2016 at 09:51
Statistically not so! The reality that is real is the one most probable to occur according to the evolution of the wavefunction. The rest aren't as re...
December 07, 2016 at 09:49
See http://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/37346/ I'm having a mental cramp over it.
December 07, 2016 at 08:20
Why is this one real as opposed to the others I'm not experiencing where I instead went to sleep instead of replying to your post, now?
December 07, 2016 at 08:12
Yes, but you can't program yourself to program yourself to program yourself ad infinitum to program yourself to program yourself...
December 07, 2016 at 08:11
I read a short part of that paper you linked. The author says: Both your conception of QM and the authors implies the Copanhagan Interpretation or the...
December 07, 2016 at 07:11
No. The world entails all the facts (logical relations) of objects within it. They are one and the same. Yes, there is just one thing, the world, whic...
December 07, 2016 at 06:56
Generally, yes. If something can not be proven to be true or false, then is it not undecidable and thus non-halting? That's just saying that a system ...
December 07, 2016 at 06:53
This is interesting and I don't dare to contest those findings by such brilliant minds. However, how does one explain that man can do what he wills bu...
December 07, 2016 at 06:47