Posted by utopizen on February 19, 2004, at 5:29:39
In reply to Re: Dysphoria- it's your environment, not you » utopizen, posted by jerrympls on February 18, 2004, at 19:02:48
> WOW-- that was powerful and very insightful. I realize that happiness won't come from a pill...i think. Most of hwat you said above is very true...it's just hard and frustrating...to keep up this battle for years upon years - you know?
>Of course it's a battle, and it's a battle that you've been trying to fight for years. But step back for a second. Are you a one man army? Who's on your side? Who's against you? What happens the day you decide to stop fighting, winning, or losing? What happens that day, is that you will, when it comes to you, realize there never was a battle around you, but within you. It was within your mind. You're telling yourself you need something to get done, like happiness, that needs to get done today, and if it doesn't, you'll never get it.
>If you worry for yourself, you will have burdens. If you worry for others, you will have challenges. It's up to you whether you want to battle yourself into an oblivion or use your talent to protect others who need you through their challenges, and life them up from their burderns. And the more you do this, life's heaviest burden-- loneliness- will lift away from yourself. It's loneliness that makes one feel they are fighting a battle, because they feel as though they're a one many army. But who are you fighting? Who are your friends? Have you found others you may surround yourself with that, instantly upon entering their presence, all of your anxities vanish from your mind and you feel at peace?
It's harder to continue battles while your friends surround you from both sides, now isn't it? Is it really your NE antagonist that needs potentiation? The most obvious things need to be looked at as though you were 16 again. Would you, at 16, do what you do now? Associate with who you associate now? Are you feeling down because your biochemistry got mixed up, or did your environment change since you were 16? Have you lost a grasp for what your true passions once were?
These are all things you need to ask yourself, and CBT is helpful for it... or, my favorite, The Feel Good Handbook. Although this drivel that I write, it's just rants... based on the principle that it's your environment that feeds you, food, neurochemicals, social relationships, and so on. The net sum of all these affect you as you are today, and knowing this is the most important thing you can ever realize.
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