Justifiable Anxiety

WTNP wrote:Reaction to an event is a result of interpretation. Period. That is why different people can have vastly different reactions to the same event.

This is an old-fashioned psychoanalytical and a rather dismissive interpretation of emotional reactions. In other words your unhappy marriage and subsequent divorce and all the stresses you had to endure may be dismissed because you simply happen to have misinterpreted your environment.

The psychological interpretation of mood disorders implies that all can be resolved by DIFFERENT THINKING, IOW's talk therapy!

This overlooks the undeniable fact that most mood disorders are due to an inner biological abnormality that psychiatrists try to treat with drugs. And why treating it with drugs, if it is really "psychological?

Irrational anxiety, depression are signs of a sick body not being able to produce feel good neurotransmitters so as to enable us to deal with the real external stresses of life. Our happiness starts off with a healthy body able to manufacture all the hormones and neurochemicals to deal with real life's stresses.

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Yes jurplesman, this is an old view, ancient in fact and fundamentally correct.

Getting your body to run better by following a solid diet like you propose does increase the tolerance of stress. There are also biological factors that can leave someone very vulnerable to irrational thinking.

However, the actual stress in the higher level areas of the brain a person experiences is a result of their reaction to external stimuli or even a lack thereof.

There are some stresses that are from the lower part of the brain but these are significant only under extreme physical conditions like low temperature or starvation.

However, again people will tolerate these 'immutable' physical stress differently depending on their beliefs. For instance a monk on a 'religious' hunger strike might in a state of bliss while a prisoner being withheld food might be psychotic under the same conditions.

I do agree with you it is good to have your bases covered but it is not the whole story my friend.

WTNP wrote:I have been the subject of terrible things and reprehensible behavior that no one could reasonably attribute to me. I am a victim.

This is where we differ -- and I can see it might make acceptance easier but I won't take the victim label any more than I will accept a half-life of scrimping on everything. Frankly I see no value in declaring myself a victim (of the global recession or anything else). I'm the same person as I was when I earned a lot of money and lived well, and I choose to go on being who I've always been.

jurplesman, I've seen your ads on here a lot. I do agree that nutrition is a very significant factor and would love to bathe in some feel-good neurotransmitters!

Candid wrote:

WTNP wrote:I have been the subject of terrible things and reprehensible behavior that no one could reasonably attribute to me. I am a victim.

This is where we differ -- and I can see it might make acceptance easier but I won't take the victim label any more than I will accept a half-life of scrimping on everything. Frankly I see no value in declaring myself a victim (of the global recession or anything else). I'm the same person as I was when I earned a lot of money and lived well, and I choose to go on being who I've always been.

jurplesman, I've seen your ads on here a lot. I do agree that nutrition is a very significant factor and would love to bathe in some feel-good neurotransmitters!

If you read my post you would realize that I am rejecting that notion. And to be honest, reading your posts it sure sounds like you present yourself as a victim of circumstance. It is the economy, your age, this couple and your husband (you are the breadwinner implying you were carrying him). You sound like a victim in your post, so much so that you feel your only recourse is suicide.

It also sounds like you want permission to feel that this is justified and that there are no options. I refuse to condone or accept that notion.