The world around unravels and if you don't adapt, then you perish; you need to embrace the times, accept the challenge at hand and give it your all. Of course, I lay back, like many people who has it so good given the fact that I'm already smart, and knowing how powerful associations are born every other moment in my life, I see that sometimes you have to go through digesting certain unsavory truths and then have a stomachache about it until you finally go to the bathroom and flush your worries away. It's important to know that, even though you think you know best, there are others who know better or are better informed. You read on issues pertaining to the day, science, health, politics, technology, even sports, all there at the palm of your hand so that you feast your curious intellectual sentient being. Of course, being smart can have its downside, especially when you know you're underachieving, it makes you lazy, overconfident, boast, part of the American experience, we are one obnoxious race and having lived here two thirds of my life, I know there's a narcissistic, selfish/selfless, altruism is nothing more than a highly rewarding way of being selfish. And there's nothing wrong about being selfish selfish either, so long as it's not an every turn, go ahead... indulge.
Often psychiatrists deal with two faces of a single spectrum. On one side of this spectrum is the neurotic and on the other the dependent; so neurotic people, it follows, take more responsibility that than they should. Dependents, on the contrary, blame everyone else for their problems. It seems that somewhere along the midway section of these two ambivalent forces lies the answer. It seems simple, but in order to survive we have to be absolutely convinced that we are doing the right thing; even people who is obviously doing the wrong thing, like W. Bush going into Iraq, didn't seem like such a big deal. You can interview prisoners in jail serving sentences in a variety of crimes, most will think themselves innocent or wronged by the system. It illustrates our nature: even when we are doing something that we think is right, we may not. I rely on good literature, nothing extraordinary, just sources of info that some friends obsessed with politics or like my love on hiatus would say, "Scientists are biased." The other night on I saw a Republican guess argue back scientific evidence on global warming and say that the jury still out because "scientists have been wrong in the past."
Certain things you just have to step aside and let pass, just like you if a herd of bulls on stampede suddenly appeared rushing towards you.
Of course, we should distrust science on issues like religion, but these same people don't rely on "faith" when it comes to their psychological maladies. They prefer to trust the head doctors in prescribing them with psychotropic substances legally engineered by giant pharmaceutic companies playing God, and in some instances, they may have proved lethal to some of those administered with these drugs. Many people have died or gotten worse or become addicted to antidepressants, suddenly people who already has dependency issues is handed a hardcore additive, and very few come out of that medicated state unscathed. Most go back, or simply experience horrible withdrawal symptoms that the only way to get rid of it is running back to the counter. Modern medicine is ran by money, they're not in the business of curing but instead treating disease, this is how the money is made. Many studies point out that far safer and just as effective in treating depression is diet and exercise, good sleep habits, meditation... not just popping a pill and problem solved! And it's not just depression, Chopra complained about how modern medicine makes the doctor a drug pusher, sort of a legal drug dealer. Instead of recommending that the individual should live a more engaging life, get rid of certain unhealthy habits like smoking or drinking excessively, for instance, and instead read, dance and run. Yeah, reading, writing, doing things that do not required you post yourself in front of a TV, unless is muted and playing the Nature station on Pandora as I slip into full mode mindfulness.
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