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What we need to be Happy

Depression is caused by the lack of what we need to be happy:

We need to belong to a group.
We need to be valued by other people.
We need to know that we are good at something.
We need to know we are secure in our future.

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Everyone Is Miserable: Here's What We Can Do About It

fastcompany.com

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Self Improvement

Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?

In the 1970s, a truth was accidentally discovered about depression - one that was quickly swept aside, because its implications were too inconvenient, and too explosive. American psychiatrists had produced a book that would lay out, in detail, all the symptoms of different mental illnesses, so they could be identified and treated in the same way across the United States.

theguardian.com

Depression and medication

Doctors for long treated depression as something inside your brain, which can be treated with meds, with no outside influence.

Certain exceptions (like losing a loved one and this leadi...

Isolated diagnosis

To treat someone who seemingly has depression, while isolating this from any other situation, event or circumstance that might have triggered it is a flawed way to diagnose a potential mental illness.

The root cause of the problem of depression is not addressed in this way.

Happy pills

Antidepressant prescription and eventually their doses have doubled over the past decade, yet depression and anxiety are spiraling out of control.

The real cause of depression does not seem to be completely inside our heads, and pill-popping is just a stop-gap measure, which may even be harmful.

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Parv Mangal

@parv_m12

This Is The Most Fun Way To Make Your Life Awesome (Pandemic Edition) - Barking Up The Wrong Tree

It was 1962, the girls wouldn't stop laughing and nobody knew why. And even stranger, the laughter was spreading. Like a virus. This was at an all-girls school in Kashasha, Tanzania. A few students had started laughing and they couldn't stop. And this inexplicable behavior spread from girl to girl until 95 of the 159 students were affected.

bakadesuyo.com

The "kindness pandemic"

Viruses aren’t the only things that spread through networks of people. Attitudes and behaviors do too. And we should take advantage of it.
Spreading happiness and kindness right now is ...

Spreading connection

70% of our happiness comes from your relationships with other people. And the social distancing situation has left some with zero people around them.
So reach out. Extended time without social contact is bad: Send a text, make that phone/video call, anything you want to let people know you care and are thinking about them.

Spreading help

Ask people if they need anything. There are people out there in need of a little more than well wishes right now. And when people see others helping, they’re more likely to help.

Also, if you need help, don’t be afraid to ask for it.

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Kyle Red

@redkyle

3 Things School Taught You Without You Even Realizing It

So I wrote a story about a school shooting. Except, in my story, once the shooter was cornered by police, instead of blowing his own brains out he began teaching the children himself, executing the ones who misbehaved or didn't follow directions. At first, his executions seemed irrational and cruel.

markmanson.net

School should not be the place where kids just learn and pass information, but a place where they learn about themselves.

The power of failure

Failure helps us. It’s how we are learning. It is the path to growth. So being comfortable with it allows us to take more calculated risks and see opportunities where others aren’t looking.

You picked up in School without realizing that:

1. Success comes from the approval of others.

2. Failure is a source of shame.

3. You depend on authority.

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