What is your mental health status?

Gael

Gael

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Are you a natural optimist, pessimist, combo of both? Do you deal well with the changes mentally aging is bringing, do you have any depression issues or phobias that trouble you?

In otherwords, how is your mental health these days would you say?

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I'm a perennial optimist and I'm perfectly comfortable with becoming old.
Actually, I reckon I'm old already at 71, I'm just not entirely decrepit yet.

What was the question again?
 
I was born with a worried frown on my face, I worry when I haven't anything to worry about! I don't think I have completely relaxed in the whole of my life. I am also a terrible hypochondriac! But I am me!:D
 
Warrigal said:
I'm a perennial optimist and I'm perfectly comfortable with becoming old.
Actually, I reckon I'm old already at 71, I'm just not entirely decrepit yet.

What was the question again?
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Great way to be and probably helps minimize any mental health issues for you, memory aside.:anyone:
 
Jillaroo said:
I suffer from major depression have done for a few years, living in isolation i suppose doesn't help, i am also a worry wort, always have been, i find the forum is a lifeline for me.
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Sorry to hear you are dealing with that. I assume if it's generalized depression you must take meds to control it.

And isolation is deadly for anyone with depression. The more you are distracted the less you tend to dwell inwardly.

I agree about this forum and I hope it continues to be helpful to you too Jill.

Some tips about depression including nutritional aspects:

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/VDR00040/Depression-and-the-Anti-Inflammatory-Diet.html
 
Justme said:
I was born with a worried frown on my face, I worry when I haven't anything to worry about! I don't think I have completely relaxed in the whole of my life. I am also a terrible hypochondriac! But I am me!:D
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Worry and myself are intimately acquainted. My whole life up since childhood. But I also have a strong faith and assertive nature which helps balance it out.

And that hypchondria thing is a major issue for a lot of people. You have company I'd say.
 
It was the faith of my childhood which probably caused the worry. Being told from young infancy you are destined for hell you don't get 'saved', by a sadist of a grandmother, doesn't do much for one! Fortunately I lost my faith by the time I was nineteen and have never felt the need to rekindle it.
 
I have visited the darkest depths of deep depression and now choose to look to the light.

A pessimist may see the glass as half empty and the optimist half full but an engineer says the glass needs to be redesigned . . .
 
That Guy said:
I have visited the darkest depths of deep depression and now choose to look to the light.

A pessimist may see the glass as half empty and the optimist half full but an engineer says the glass needs to be redesigned . . .
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This is true! Had an engineer brother-in-law and that fits!!:yes:


But seriously, outlook means so much unless your brain is wired in such a fashion (bi-polar) for example, that makes it not that easy a solution.
 
My screen name gives away a lot.

"Cynic. n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."

--Ambrose Bierce, the Devil's Dictionary

This book was originally published as The Cynic's Wordbook but is most well known under the previous title. The copyright has long since expired so it is available as a free download from Project Gutenberg. It's a riot to read. Project Gutenberg has thousands of other such books, all free.

http://www.gutenberg.org/
 
RCynic said:
My screen name gives away a lot.

"Cynic. n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."

--Ambrose Bierce, the Devil's Dictionary

Always loved that term, blackguard.



This book was originally published as The Cynic's Wordbook but is most well known under the previous title. The copyright has long since expired so it is available as a free download from Project Gutenberg. It's a riot to read. Project Gutenberg has thousands of other such books, all free.

http://www.gutenberg.org/
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Always loved that term, blackguard.

A quote comes to mind now to me..

[h=1]“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.”[/h]
 
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