(ralphschism.com - ignore the rest, this is a specific unindexed new page on this one issue as sharable worksheet. My jottings in main site over 2 years are on all sorts though there are some talks and videos on depression in the main site over those two years, and especially AUTHENTICITY - i believe an utterly key part of mental health....i shall link that previous work here soon for ease of use, especially as most of ralphschism.com is a sort of slight Proustian stream of consciousness, and the video clips in a way an 'absurdist' artful commentary upon the utter claptrap nearly everyone puts online... so it is not really relevant, anyway is two years of millions of word waffle.... except that taking onsesself far too seriously, rather than splurging all of ourselves - warts and all - self deprecatingly and laughing AT ones own foibles, is indeed definitely one of the 'causes' of depression ....thus in a way it is 'linked' )
8 Feb 2025
This is an invitation seeking a few to work on the message around depression as a 'cause'
(defn: a principle, aim, or movement to which one is committed and which one is prepared to defend or advocate. "she devoted her whole adult life to the cause of deaf people" )
I have devoted large amounts of reading researching and pondering time to 'depression' over 30+ years and am allowed to say this (being in 20s quite seriously a sufferer - major consequences to my life! ): i do not think it helps to consider it an 'illness'....
the 'cause' of addressing depression in society is urgent and important. I have spent many years mulling over how better to address it all so as to actually help sufferers.
people like The Nutcracker ( a personal friend who is psychotherapist starting her career) do need to ponder rethinking it all as i have been for decades. And join me....
THIS IS EXTRTEMELY SCRAPPY FIRST DRAFT IDEAS COLLECTION
In short i have a range of ideas around the real reasons why so many - even more these days, become depressed such that they are disabled by it for significant periods of time.
I intend to attempt to write coherently about what in my own life journey i strongly believe became the real vaccine. I know there is one (and offering any sufferer any false hope little less than a crime). And i do not follow ANY kind of New Age, or similar, theory or practice.
There is a key down there in the psyche, and whilst i do not in any way believe in any 'radical' therapy, I do believe that a deep philosophical look at the way we have seen ourselves from childhood in the world, and then operate in the world, is very much part of the change that can lead to lasting freedom from depression. I know my own change is permanent. It has been tested to extremes.
This first quick notes and audios page will be improved soon.
INTRO is in file 360
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17zEvlvMUnsVRGTMwNOCfvmVeR4ckHNhE/view?usp=sharing
Then it rambles on in google folder
google drive folder called PSYCH2025
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17uF8qXjBPod_iL55EYE5E0hFONAMJ0bc?usp=sharing
files:
339 pt 1
341 pt 2 (includes unintentional random talk with woman about the modern phenomena of many people overdoing 'dog'. I leave it in unedited because in fact i strongly believe that of several root 'causes' to increased rates of depression is the rather neurotic modern day need to identify oneself with/ as an expert IN all sorts of high pressured displays of 'success' or status - individuation, etc..... The Century of Self as Adam Curtiss coined in his famous documentaries, and doing so via the dog i see as yet another modern day behaviour which leads into syndromes such as depression which I know is in expectation we will indeed have our status toys, always and so much of 'depression' stems for a fear of being nothing and having nothing ... it will take me a while to codify this in the acceptable language you will expect....but i will soon)
345 pt 3
348 pt 4
349 pt 5
I shall soon transcribe these audio notes into some writing on the matter.
