meds I don’t want.
Why?
Medication helped me a lot after we lost our daughter. As did group therapy.
I don’t want to spend money on medication and I don’t want to be medicated. As for group therapy, I don’t know why I would want to be in a group with anybody, but especially not group therapy. I credit them for the business model though. You can see a lot more customers rather than one at a time.
Therapists are a waste. I don’t want to sit on a couch and pay some bastard hundreds of dollars to listen to me tell him about my childhood and then prescribe me some meds I don’t want. As for your “Happiness is possible,” line, that’s a gross generalization. It’s one of the really sickening attitudes that the public tends to have. I hinted at it in a recent conversation in the Politics thread, but such statements (or lies as I prefer to call them) insult me. They’re just vague bullshit lines that people can throw at others and pretend that they’re being helpful. Handman can, and should, do whatever the hell he wants; I was just making a suggestion.
Given that there are people who find more happiness than you believe is possible, I’d say it’s obvious that happiness is possible. I don’t know who finds total carefree bliss, but that’s clearly not what I’m talking about. This is about recognizing and living up to potential.
You must feel you have a really good reason for thinking it isn’t possible for you to become happier.
Happiness seems like a delusion to me, so I don’t find it appealing anymore.
Without some kind of assistance I don’t know how you can bounce back from that belief.
But even if you want to accept happiness is a delusion, why wouldn’t you choose that delusion?
I’m not delusional.
It must be an awfully easy thing to be under this delusion. How were you able to escape it? And what’s the value in [seeing life as it really is]?
I don’t like the assertion that focusing on awful things is more objective than focusing on positive things. There is too much information to process, and we play a part in our own stories. So I think that the idea that objectivity can exist regarding looking at life is rather arrogant, moreso the idea that being negative about it is the superior position.