Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds. By Zacharty Bercovitz Find out about Depression Jokes
Depression Treating
Before you can treat depression you have to know exactly what you are dealing with. Depression troubles 15 million Americans every year, it's not a joke. The most troubling aspect is that only about 1/3 of those people seek help. It's the stereotypes associated with mental illness that plague far too many people. People consider their reputation and what others will think of someone who is nuts. In order to treat depression it must be diagnosed. To be diagnosed, those that suffer have to seek assistance. It's a vicious circle.
Depression stems from many things. Depression stems from chemical, emotional, environmental and even physical causes . The genetic link cannot be ignored as well. Many diseases are passed on through a family. It's not only genetics but how a family lives together. Living comes along with a lot of stress. The constant struggle just to survive bothers some. Even success and fitting into society can be the problem for others. Then there are the circumstances where individuals have been abused physically, emotionally or sexually and are overcome with despair. The list isn't a short one.
Depression is often hard to find in its early form. It's hard to see the symptoms even if a loved one suffers from this illness. Everyone fights some mild distress once in awhile. It's common. Depression is more than just temporary sadness. When the symptoms begin to start taking over your life than the opportunity for early detection has been missed. People with depression feel lonely and fed up with general living. They no longer see a sign of hope in their lives. Simple daily enjoyments and even sleeping are affected. Treatment is now needed before the illness worsens.
In treating depression you have to reinstall hope and purpose into those that are suffering. Psychotherapy often accomplishes this. It's effective after months and sometimes years of treatment. Doctors can also administer drugs such as Prozac or Paxil or other anti-depressants . These drugs are effective but they are accompanied by many side effects as well. There are also natural herbs that have been proven clinically to bring about positive results in treating depression as well. Depression support groups also exist. Medical professionals should be consulted if you or someone you know shows symptoms of depression.
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Please please please help especially people who have been experiencing depression?
I'm not sure if I'm depressed plz help!!! I still like to laugh and make jokes and sing an fool around and stuff but I always feel down I don't want to do stuff with my friends anymore they've stopped calling me to do stuff sometimes I don't think I'm important and u feel like my life is to boring and I'm a waste... Idk if I'm depressed so can someone plz help me.. Oh and I'm 13 btw
For it to be depression you would have had to feel this way for at least two weeks. If you felt like this for at least two weeks then you should go to the doctors. I experienced the same thing & it turns out I have depression. All the doctor will do is ask you a bunch of questions, it's really not bad. Its worth it to go to the doctors & get help. Believe me.
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I love the women of the Baby Boomer generation. They demanded world attention for their rights to equality in the sixties, changed the gender rules in the seventies, made their way into executive boardrooms in the eighties, and paved the way for the coming generations of their daughters and their daughter's daughters. Generations X and Y, and hopefully "Z", have a lot to thank them.
Today, younger adult women don't have to go through what they did for recognition and understanding. When I enrolled at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1981, I was the only female in my first accounting class. Today, there are equally the same if not more women in graduate university and advanced education courses than men. This is how dramatically things have changed. But have they?
Since my mid-forties, I have had reason to visit a lot of doctor's offices. I have been diagnosed as peri-menopausal, menopausal (differing opinions from different doctors), suffering from hypothyroidism, not suffering from hypothyroidism, chronic Fatigue, no Chronic Fatigue, stress-related panic attacks, hypoglycaemia, hyperglycaemia - and the best of all - a recommendation that I should see a psychologist! All of these complaints and symptoms became more relevant when I later discovered I had severe adrenal problems - completely undiagnosed by all the doctors I saw. But for now, I just want to say, "God help the Baby Boomers!"
During the last few years, I have been in and out of so many doctor's offices, surgeries, and hospitals that I have lost track. I have visited Hormone Specialists, Gynaecologists, General Practitioners and been rushed into hospital Emergency Rooms on countless occasions. I have had more blood tests than any rational person is meant to endure; subjected to ECGs (electrocardiograms), X-rays, brain scans, chest scans, hearing tests, and spent hours upon hours in those wonderful little ER cubicles waiting for tests or wheeled around from testing lab to testing lab. Not once, not a couple of times, but countless times. I have had the top of my palm injected with horrible large needles while I've waited for hours for a scan, drip, or blood transfusion.
I have also been insulted, ignored, laughed at, and been given operative procedures, drugs and antibiotics against my expressed concerns. A hospital gynaecologist even asked me on one occasion whether my breasts were real. (I am naturally well endowed.) I believe he was being playful and it was meant to be a joke - but at the time, I was lying in a hospital Emergency Room bed, waiting for a 4-pack blood transfusion. Needless to say, I didn't find it very amusing at the time.
I am not a feminist. I know what strengths and weaknesses women have and acknowledge the strengths and weaknesses that men have. However, I am utterly astonished and dumbfounded at the way women are still being treated in the medical arena.
I am in total dismay at how the women of that gregarious, rebellious, open-minded, ground-breaking generation, the Baby Boomers, who led the revolution in changing the advertising, marketing, financial, and consumer-driven demands of the world, are still being treated as the 1950s stereotype female by the traditional medical community. And this includes some female doctors I have visited as well.
Every time I have visited a new doctor, the first typical response is, "its probably menopausal changes". Firstly, if all I have suffered were menopause symptoms, I'd be swinging from the rafters with glee. I don't wish to invalidate the women who have difficulties caused by hormonal changes, but with the new bio-identical hormone therapy available, menopause is an easier transition now than ever before.
Secondly, it worries me that the abruptness and immediacy of this instant diagnosis for women who happen to be in the 40 plus age group can potentially and dangerously prevent a real disease from accurate diagnosis and treatment or lead to misdiagnoses and serious consequences where there were none in the first place.
Men, younger women and now even teenagers and children are affected by similar circumstances. However, the typical and by far the larger demographic profile of wrongly diagnosed patients who fall victim to anti-depressants and tranquillisers are adult women.
Norma Finkelstein, Ph.D., of the Boston-based Coalition on Addiction, Pregnancy, and Parenting says, "Women tend to get addicted to prescription drugs like sedatives and tranquillisers more often than men do because doctors prescribe them to women more freely". She estimates that 70 percent of prescribed tranquillisers and sedatives in the US are given to women. In Australia, 2:1 or 66.7 percent is the estimated ratio for women. Finkelstein also adds, "Women have long been seen by the medical profession as hysterical and anxious - so rather than listening to the woman's problem, some doctors will just write a prescription for medication."
I recall the wisdom of a friend who once said, "Educate the mother and you educate the family". He was speaking of higher values at the time, but those words ring ominously in my mind now. Was the Rolling Stones' 1960s hit "Mother's Little Helper" a warning we didn't heed?
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Ann Marosy is an accountant, consultant, and former university lecturer. She was formally the Financial Controller of the Fortune 500 Company, Jardine Matheson, and Finalist of SA Executive Woman of the Year.
Ann is the author of 'The Money Program' book series, which includes managing the stages of wealth creation, formulas for budgeting, debt-free program and investment strategies.
In a class on abnormal psychology, the instructor was about to introduce the subject of manic depression.
The instructor asked, "How would you diagnose a patient who walks back and forth, screaming at the top of his lungs one minute, then sits in a chair weeping uncontrollably the next?"
A young man in the rear raised his hand and suggested earnestly, "A basketball coach?"
Men have only two faults.
Women's faults are many,
men have only 2: Everything they say and everything they do
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye they will slink out of sight. By Orison Swett Marden Find out about Anti Depression Jokes
Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la dépression de traitement
La dépression est une maladie, une affection mentale. Obtenir le traitement de la dépression à droite au bon moment est d'une importance vitale. À quelqu'un qui souffre de dépression, il est non seulement extrêmement stressant pour le patient lui-même, mais aussi des gens qui sont préoccupés par eux, en particulier leurs bons amis et des parents.
Certains symptômes de la dépression incluent des sautes d'humeur, des sentiments de désespoir, de l'insomnie, pensées suicidaires, tentatives de suicide, la frustration et d'impuissance de ne pouvoir s'arracher à elle. Certains autres des signes de dépression sont une sensation d'inutilité, d'incapacité de travail (menace de quitter), incapacité à se concentrer, incapacité à se souvenir des choses, un total détachement de choses que j'aime, parler constamment de vie après la mort, la mort, Dieu, et ainsi de suite. Fondamentalement, le plus tôt vous remarquez les signes de dépression, plus il est facile de traiter la dépression.
Heureusement, médecins d'aujourd'hui sont bien formés dans la dépression des questions connexes. Ils sont bien entraînés à donner suffisamment d'informations pour les gens là-bas sur ce qui est la dépression, ses symptômes, comment l'éviter et comment elle peut être traitée. Dans l'ancien temps, la dépression était associée à la folie et l'instabilité mentale. Ces malentendus sont réduits au minimum aujourd'hui. Aujourd'hui, les gens souffrant de dépression reçoivent une point de vue plus sympathiques d'autres personnes et ils sont traités avec dignité et de soins. Vous pouvez obtenir le traitement de la dépression de corriger, à tout établissement de santé. Le malade ne doit être en mesure de reconnaître qu'il / elle n'est pas vraiment sentir dans le contrôle plus et que l'aide est nécessaire.
Le meilleur traitement pour la dépression est d'identifier les signes de dépression le plus tôt possible et de trouver la principale raison qui cause la dépression. Plus vous attendez, le pire de la dépression obtiendrait, et plus il faudrait pour le traitement de la dépression pour récupérer l'état. Au début des stade, traitement de la dépression peut être très efficace. Il a également un taux de récupération très rapide. Par conséquent, il ne semble pas intelligent de souffrir et d'attendre pour s'arracher de votre blues à jamais.
Là sont de bonnes quantités d'anti-dépresseurs et les médicaments dépression qui peuvent aider à soulager les symptômes dépressifs. Certains médicaments doivent être pris avec de l'eau et certains sont à la mastication. Bien qu'il existe nombre d'anti-dépresseurs et les médicaments de dépression, le traitement de la dépression devra être adapté conformément à la condition individuelle. Ce n'est pas comme la peste ayant, ou un rhume qui a des médicaments et des soins standard. Il faut une attention particulière et une attention particulière à veiller à ce que le traitement donné à la dépression de la personne travaille effectivement. Par conséquent, il n'ya pas deux cas, la dépression peut être aussi bien, et pas de deux traitements dépression serait être similaire soit. En fonction de votre état, votre médecin sera en mesure de recommander le médicament adapté à votre type particulier de dépression, que ce soit légère ou sévère.
Depuis le marché est plein de dépression anti médicaments, il est essentiel de noter que jamais reprendre les pilules contre la dépression anti / médicaments. C'est très risqué et ne prétend pas être expérimenté avec. Dans le cas où vous prenez des médicaments ou incorrectes dans les dosages mal, il peut y avoir des catastrophes énormes. Toujours se soigner uniquement après avoir consulté un médecin. Seul le médecin sera être en mesure de vous conseiller le dosage correct. J'ai connu des gens qui ont pris ce conseil au particulier, comme une plaisanterie avec des conséquences très terrible. La dépression peut conduire au suicide si elle n'est pas vérifiée dans le temps. Par conséquent, il est extrêmement impératif que c'est plutôt prévenir que guérir.
Outre les antidépresseurs et les médicaments de dépression, une autre alternative est de chercher les remèdes qui sont naturelles base. C'est parce que, en général, la plupart des médicaments anti dépression ont des effets secondaires. Ces effets secondaires peuvent être terribles, mais la plupart des effets secondaires se dissipent après un certain temps. Informez votre médecin sur vos effets secondaires pour savoir si elles sont standards et tenir un registre de leur durée. Si elles persistent trop longtemps, vous devrez soit changer vos médicaments ou de réduire la posologie. Votre médecin sera en mesure de prendre cette décision. Ne jamais le faire toi-même.
En plus de prendre des médicaments chimiques ou naturels anti dépression, vous devez vous rendre pour l'exercice, l'air frais, et la méditation. Il est vrai aussi que l'on doit être heureux et fier de tout ce que Dieu envoie leur chemin, des attentes élevées sont généralement un déclencheur très important pour la dépression.
Les bons nouvelles est que l'amateur a compris que la dépression est une maladie traitable et guérissable, tout comme la grippe, qui peuvent et doivent être traités avec le médicament correct et le traitement parfois psychiatriques. Cela ne signifie pas que la personne est psychologiquement instable ou qu'il / elle est en voie de devenir fou, comme la croyance était il ya quelques décennies.
La dépression est traitée avec sympathie et de soins. En plus des médicaments, la méditation, le yoga et la pensée positive sont d'autres facteurs qui contribuent à la bataille et de traiter la dépression et le temps nouveau. Qualité hors du temps et de séances de thérapie et d'anti-dépresseurs peut également vous rapporter de votre blues, mais la meilleure façon de lutter dépression est la relaxation régulière des deux corps et l'esprit.
i honestly need help, what could possibly be happening to me, am i becoming anti social?
i guess i answered my own question because i know i am not anti social but i truly need help. all my best friends from college are home for tgiving (i've been home i did comm. college this yr) and i am not happy to be with most of them. when it is all 7 of us i seriously have thoughts of suicide i am not joking. all the 'on the surface' conversations are a bore to me. i like it in smaller groups we can talk more in depth but even so i prefer staying home. am i a narcissist b*tch? i enjoy my own company, is it possible that i am sick of them even though i barely see them? i havent made any new best friends at my new college. wow i want to throw up, what is wrong with me??? depression signs? i dont think so but i dont know what could be going on. maybe im just sick of these same old faces
Maybe you're just changing.
And if it takes so little for you to contemplate suicide, you should go see a therapist.
Loneliness insomnia and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. By Mignon McLaughlin The Second Neurotic's Notebook1966 Find out about Depression Jokes Funnies
Prank Ideas for the Battle Against Depression
Depression is a nasty emotional stew of sadness, apathy, and anger. Any tool you bring to bear against it is good. I suggest you try laughing on a regular basis. Nobody would be depressed if they spent just a few minutes every day laughing. Countless studies have shown that laughter lowers blood pressure and raises the levels of seratonin and dopamine in the brain. Simply put, laughter is quite probably nature's most potent anti-depressant.
The truth is that it is difficult to laugh when you are depressed. Jokes are almost never funny to a depressed person. That's because jokes are just words, stories from which we are disconnected. To achieve laughter, find something in the real world and make it funny: Prank someone.
Unlike jokes, pranks are active. The prankster momentarily tricks someone, transforming them into a bit of a fool. (Do not harm anyone with a prank, just trick them.) When all is said and done, you both laugh. Pranks last longer than jokes, too. They can be repeated, talked about years later and even recorded for posterity.
The most important aspect of a good prank is that person being pranked is taken by surprise An normal, everyday, humdrum event becomes unusual. For example, attach a $20 bill to a piece of fishing line and place it on the sidewalk. When someone stoops over to pick it up, pull it away. Take video of this, and you may just be the next big Internet video sensation! Prank ideas pop up everywhere if you just look for ways to throw a monkey wrench into everyday happenings.
A good prank can ease every negative emotion associated with depression. Developing a prank forces you to "get out of bed" mentally as you devise it. If anger is an issue for you, tricking someone can give you a sense of satisfaction (Please don't be vindictive or harmful). If you are sad, happiness grows when your prank victim laughs at the realization that they have been duped.
Here are the rules:
Prank with a good heart, in the spirit of fun for all Take pleasure in making a bit of a fool of yourself -- stop taking yourself so seriously! Never harm anyone physically or inflict permanent emotional scars.
That is it. Now get to work with your pranks! It will help you feel better.
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Any Funny Jokes???
I need some jokes because exams are right around the corner and I'm gonna need some jokes to help me fight off the depression and studying.
ok i have a few two are sick ones though k?
what do women and air planes have in common???
they both have cockpits..
heres another
what do u do with three hundred and sixtyfive used condoms?
tie them together melt them down, make a tire and call it a good-year..
y did the three blondes jump off a building??
they wanted to see if their maxi pads with wings could really fly..
thats all 4now hope u liked them
(takes a bow)
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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. By George Bernard Shaw Find out about Funny Depression Jokes
Here Come the Jokes and Criticism Against Barack Obama
It is very exciting when we get to see history unfold before our eyes. Many people in our past generations (such as our parents) were able to see man landing on the moon for the first time. When something like this happens it is exciting and amazing to know that you were able to witness it. This year in 2008 many Americans will remember watching their televisions once again as the first black man was elected as the President of the Unites States.
For over a year we watched and listened to Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama plead their cases to the American people and state why they would be best for President. It was believed that John McCain would win with no problems - but the people spoke otherwise. On November 4th Barack Obama won the Presidency by a landslide. Being in office Barack must now face the biggest challenge of his life. He must be able to rule a country that is slowly easing towards a depression and is in the middle of a war that will never seem to end.
This requires him to be able to fulfill all of the promises that got him into this demanding position. The American people are now asking whether or not he will be able to take the soldiers out of Iraq and harms way? Or will he be able to steer us clear from a depression and into an economy that people cannot only afford - but can also enjoy to live in. He has four years to prove himself.
Along with trying to keep the country well run and balanced out he most endure criticism from everyone. The fact that he is the first black President makes him an icon forever and someone that many people will look up to. But it also means that others will not like him. But this comes with the territory does it not? We see it with every President that takes office.
When you are in such a high position of power you are required to do EVERYTHING right. One small wrong move like not pronouncing a word right or wearing the wrong clothes will be ridiculed and splashed on every comedic television show and website. The media rules the minds of people and the media is everywhere. It plays a big role in people’s lives and is the easiest way to spread the word.
Already many websites have begun to spread around Obama jokes. I’ll admit that a few of them are a bit funny - but every once in a awhile I will run across some that can take things a little too far. Let’s remember that as our President we do have the right to criticize - but we also need to respect him. After all he is the most powerful man in the country and he can control most things. Let’s try to keep him happy and we wish him good luck on the next four years!
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You can’t go wrong sending funny jokes to people. It is the quickest way to put a smile on their face when they are having a bad day. So go out now and find the funniest lawyer jokes, political jokes, and so much more.
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How can you get rid of post-natal depression without drugs?
My mum keep joking about me being unhappy all the time but I don't really think it funny, it makes me worse.
I have had postnatal depression - fairly mild, sometimes moderate OCD but never lie in bed can't function depression.
I realy don't want to take drugs but I wan to shake this off. I do eat well and exercise which is may be why it never got so bad...
talk to someone about how you are feeling that may make you feel better
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Oh the nerves the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it poor creatures that we are! By Charles Dickens Find out about Depression Jokes Humor
Spice Up Your Lives With Online Peppy Humors
Humor is the spice of life. Life without fun and humor is simply vain. Thanks to technological advancement in recent years, sources of humor have evolved themselves to new heights. Movies or plays are not the only source of humor of today. In fact, the duration of these stuffs leaves little option for people who can hardly afford to spend even an hour. Quick sources of humor surround our daily lives but we hardly care to look around and feel their presence.
Humor is not restrained to words or enactments. Even pictures possess the capacity to evoke laughter. A hoarding on the roadside can not only attract the attention of the passersby but also bring out smiles if it possesses a fun element. Funny pictures apart, funny videos are also an excellent source of quick humor.
Undoubtedly, funny videos offer moments of quick relief. These light moments are extremely important to cheer one's spirits and shrug off every stress. In fact, visual sources of humor like videos and pictures create greater impact. Pictures and videos drawn from real life help one to connect to their own experiences. Most of the funny videos available on the Internet are drawn from real-life incidents, which help convey personal elements with a hint of fun.
Funny pictures, on the other hand, may incorporate cartoon sketches of well-known figures as well as real-life pictures. A number of them convey jokes to laugh your belly out. These hilarious stuffs evoke emotions to help our body attain equilibrium of health and happiness.
Physicians and therapists too emphasize on the advantages of humor in one’s life. Funny stuffs like pictures or videos can work wonders for people who are prone to depression. Even a five-minute fun break from your hectic schedule can be truly refreshing. Besides, the joy of watching funny videos with your friends or family is a nothing short of a priceless experience. These happy hours are a great way to strengthen your bonds with your near and dear ones.
So make the most of your lives by gorging in little tidbits of humor. The Internet is one platform from where funny stuffs like jokes, pictures or videos can be easily accessible. Take your pick of the jokes, funny pictures or funny videos to bring a fresh lease of life into the dull drudgery of your monotonous lives.
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Is it possible to lose your sense of humour?
I used to be really wacky and funny and make people laugh all the time, but I've noticed in the past few years (since I had a run of depression) I've changed. I don't crack jokes so easily, and if I do they're not as observant and witty as they used to be.
I still find other people funny and can appreciate humour, but I used to write stand-up and now I can't seem to do it at all! Is there something wrong with me? Will it ever come back?
i think i gained some...
i dunno for me its just like an endless cycle but maybe its cause im shy
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Worry doubt fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. By Attributed to Douglas MacArthur Find out about Depression Jokes Posters
Introduction to Patrick Henry College
When I first began covering religion for the Washington Post, more than ten years ago, deflecting conversion attempts became a routine part of my work. Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries. What did it matter that I was a reporter doing my job if I was headed for eternal damnation? To a population of domestic missionaries, I presented as a prime target: a friendly non-Christian who was deeply interested in learning more about their beliefs.
The first time someone tried to share the gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you, thinking this would end the conversation. This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip. Because God's own chosen people had so conspicuously rejected Jesus, winning one over was an irresistible challenge. And the Holy Land glamour of Israel only added to the allure. Preachers told me they loved me, half an hour after we met. Godly women asked if they could take home a piece of my clothing and pray over it. A pastor's wife once confided to my husband, "You're so lucky. She looks so . . . Biblical." Once, at a Waffle House in Colorado with some associates of the influential Christian activist James Dobson, a woman in our company stared at me so hard it became uncomfortable for me to eat. Finally, I looked up at her. "When I look at you, I see the blood of our Savior coursing through your veins," she said.
"Thank you," I gulped. "More maple syrup?"
Explaining that my family had been Jewish for many generations and that, by converting, I'd be breaking a deep, rich tradition only encouraged them to break out the big gun. I've heard it so many times that I can recite it by heart. Matthew 10:36: "For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law -- a man's enemies will be the members of his own household. Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me." This didn't stick with me, either. Clearly they had not met my mother, or any Jewish mother for that matter. The Jews haven't endured for nearly 4,000 years by giving their cubs up so easy.
Biblical verses, like turtlenecks go in and out of style. During the nineties I heard Matthew 10:36 on nearly every reporting trip. This was a paradoxical decade for evangelicals. The Christian right had become a fixture in American politics and the nation was about to elect George W. Bush, the closest thing American evangelicals have had to a pope. At the same time the Christian home-school movement was booming -- a relic of the age of separatism and retreat. Evangelicals were poised to move from the fringe to the elite power circles of American society, but they just couldn't seem to make the jump. Unless they learned to polish their act and stop telling people to renounce their mothers, they would never make it.
I first visited Patrick Henry College in September 1999, a year before the school opened its doors. The "school," that afternoon, consisted of founder Michael Farris, a Christian homeschooling activist, manning an excavator on a construction site just off a Virginia highway exit. Farris was affable, his usual manner with reporters, as he laid out the plans for his revolution. The school would enlist the purest of born-again Christians in a war to "transform America" by training them to occupy the highest offices in the land." Year after year, it would churn out future congressmen, governors, and federal judges, until they finally had the majority. "Few students will know more about the political ramifications of reinforcing homosexuality through special rights than ours," he told me. One day, he bragged, he would introduce the ultimate graduation-day speaker: "President So and So, an alumnus of Patrick Henry."
It all sounded a little far-fetched. After all, he hadn't even laid the first brick.
Then Bush ran for president as a born-again former alcoholic, and won. Suddenly Farris seemed much less delusional. In the early winter of 2005 I visited again. The central building, Founders Hall, was now an impressive Federalist structure. Inside, the walls were covered with posters for an upcoming production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. A Whiffenpoofs-style singing group occupied the grand staircase. After talking to some kids having lunch, I concluded they were some of the most anal, competitive teenagers I had every come across. They input their daily schedules into Palm Pilots in fifteen-minute increments -- read Bible, do crunches, take shower, study for Latin quiz, write debate briefs. After Jesus Christ they bowed down to the "1600's" -- the handful of kids each year who'd gotten perfect scores on the SAT. The atmosphere was much more Harvard than Bob Jones.
They resembled the overambitious junior executives who populate the Ivy League these days -- only without the political apathy. Hardly a dorm window, car bumper, bathroom mirror, or laptop went unsullied by some campaign slogan -- for George Bush, John Thune, Bobby Jindal, or one of the many Christian conservatives who won during the 2004 campaign. Many students had taken a sanctioned two weeks off classes to volunteer for campaigns, and they were giddy with victory. One senior told me how she'd sacrificed a couple of weekends helping out Bush adviser Karl Rove. One Saturday afternoon, he stopped by to give her a thank-you present. "Good thing it was an ice-cream sandwich or I would have kept it forever!"
"You are the tip of the spear," Farris likes to tell his students at morning chapel, drawing on his limitless arsenal of military metaphors. Polls would place them among the 29 percent of Christian teens who attend church weekly, pray, read the Bible, and describe religion as "extremely important" in their lives. Sociologically speaking, they are a parent's dream. They are less likely than most teenagers to cut classes, do drugs, have sex, get depressed, feel alone or misunderstood, talk back, or lie. Within the third of Americans who call themselves "evangelical" or "born again" they make up an elite corps, focused, disciplined, and not prone to distraction.
When they use the word "Christian," they are speaking their own special language. To them, a Catholic or Mormon, with some exceptions, is not really a Christian. Someone who goes to church three times a year and sings hymns is not a Christian. Someone who goes to church every Sunday and calls themselves "evangelical" is not even necessarily a Christian. "She thought I was nice and Jesus was a great guy and she went to church a lot, but she wasn't a Christian," Farris once told a group of students about an acquaintance, and they understood exactly what he meant. To them, a "Christian" keeps a running conversation with God in his or her head always, Monday through Sunday, on subjects big and small, and believes that at any moment God might in some palpable way step in and show He either cares or disapproves.
On the issues that have come to define the modern Christian right, the students at Patrick Henry generally cleave to orthodoxy. During my year and a half on campus, I never heard any student argue that homosexuality is not a sin, or that abortion should be allowed in any circumstances. I heard people criticize Bush, but only from the right. After the 2004 campaign, I heard a rumor that someone had voted for John Kerry. I chased down many leads. All dead ends. If it was true, no one would admit it publicly. At Baylor University in Waco, Texas, a much older Baptist institution that's lately been trying to modernize, the student newspaper defended gay marriage in 2004. Such a transgression is unthinkable at Patrick Henry -- so beyond the pale that the possibility is mentioned only in passing in the otherwise-very-thorough student code of conduct.
Yet a Patrick Henry student is unlikely to be caught on camera giving a loony Jerry Falwell-style rant about gays and lesbians causing September 11. They worry about gay rights, but they worry just as much about mainstream culture's thinking they're homophobic. "Yes, it's a sin, but so are a hundred other things," one of the students told me, in a self-conscious nod to the "whatever" cadence of his peers. One day a CNN crew came to film a feature story on the school on the same day some students had made two snowmen holding wooden paddles. The snow sculpture was an inside joke about the students' fratlike ritual, recently criticized in the school newspaper, of paddling newly engaged boys. But Farris was mortified. "Do you really want a story to develop that suggests a connection between PHC and those that have beaten homosexuals, etc.?" he wrote in an e-mail to some students who had defended the snowmen as a harmless prank. "PHC 'a school for vigilante justice.' Is that the image you want?"
At first, when I encountered students who were wary about being interviewed by me, I assumed it was because of the usual evangelicals' suspicion of outsiders. After a while I realized it wasn't that at all. Mostly, they were protecting their résumés. "If I want to get into politics, no history is a good history," class president Aaron Carlson told me. "I want to be prudent that nothing I say is ever misconstrued." The Patrick Henry generation will not repeat the mistakes of their fathers. They are not the reckless, fuming, fed-up generation that left Egypt -- evangelical code for the modern world. They are the "Joshua Generation," as Farris likes to say, the first ones savvy enough to "take back the land."
Patrick Henry students are supposed to be lights unto the world, an example to the unsaved. And yet, there I was, blind as can be, and no one on campus tried to convert me, at least not outright. I never once heard Matthew 10:36. No one told me to turn against my mother, and no one told me I looked like Jesus. Once Sarah Chambers, a PHC student I knew well, left me a note about a book I'd loaned her, a memoir by a former evangelical. She said the book was charming and funny and astutely observed but ultimately unsatisfying because the author fundamentally did not understand what it meant to have a close personal relationship with God. ("If you don't have it yourself it's hard to understand what motivates these 'crazy fanatics,'" she wrote.) I took the note personally. Months into my reporting, I still didn't understand.
I began to ask around: What does it mean to keep up a running conversation with Jesus in your head, and at the same time to function in the modern world? I asked as a reporter, but the question kept striking people in a way I didn't intend. To Farris and many of the students I knew, I seemed to be sending out the signal that I was open to hearing The Word. Farris loaned me Dallas Willard's Hearing God and one afternoon pulled a splinter out of my hand, which at the moment felt close to bathing the feet of the sinner. He prayed "that things come up to help me really show her what it means to have a relationship with God. I feel so inadequate. This is so strange." One sweet freshman told me, "Uhm, well, I like you and I'd just feel really bad if you died and you weren't sure."
Farris must have known I'd be a hard case. I am Jewish, and most of my family lives in Israel; I spent my teenage years in Queens, New York, in the eighties, where my idea of a dress code was matching my miniskirt to my handball gloves. I work and leave my children for several hours a week in the charge of a babysitter who is (gasp!) not related to me. I firmly believe the earth is 4.5 billion years old, or whatever the current scientific consensus says. I have many beloved gay friends and have never once suggested to any of them that they enter into reparative therapy to "cure their disease."
I am naturally democratic almost to a fault. (I've always been grateful that I don't live in a country ruled by a despot, since I could have ended up the one to "humanize" him.) So, despite our differences, I had no trouble letting them in.
For a few weeks during the summer of 2005, Sarah Chambers lived with my family. She'd gotten an internship at a national magazine based in Washington, D. C., and needed a place to stay. When I told my friends this, most of them would give me a quizzical why-are-you-harboring-Nazis-in-your-attic look. Once they met her, they were even more worried. Sarah is charismatic, funny, and adventurous. She climbs, snowboards, and plays the guitar. Her musical tastes range from Jack Johnson to Puff Daddy. She's a terrific writer and was the only intern in her class hired for a full-time job. She could be one of those power girls in a Nike ad, looking glamorous even at the end of a marathon. On top of that, she's an astute judge of character with an introspective side. Sometimes in the mornings I'd find her upstairs in her bed, reading her Bible and taking notes. "If they're all like this," one of my friends said, "we're in trouble."
Often, in the evenings, we would sit around and talk about what she believes. One night my husband finally asked her the question: "So, are we going to Hell?" The Patrick Henry statement of faith, which Sarah and all the other students have to sign, is quite explicit on this question. Satan is real, it says, so is Hell. "All who die outside of Christ shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity." Barring the Second Coming, chances are quite high that my husband and I and our two young children are going to die outside of Christ.
At this point, Sarah had been living with us for almost a month. She'd bathed our children and read them bedtime stories. She'd given my five-year-old daughter a magnificent white model horse, Snow White, that she herself had loved as a child.
"Yes," she answered. "But I'm not jumping up and down with joy about it."
Hanna Rosin has covered religion and politics for the Washington Post. She has also written for the New Yorker, the New Republic, GQ, and the New York Times. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Slate deputy editor David Plotz, and their two children.
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Is my friend going insane or what?
recently my friend told me she has depression, and i could tell. for the longest time she would suddenly cry, and no one would kno why, and occasionaly have meetings w/ the principle and counselor. now she's going to a therapist, and honestly i think things are getting worse. she came running out of english class saying i have D, YES!! i was like...anyways, she also cannot stand any jokes or like anything "scary/" like, one time me and my other friend were making fun of each others outfits, just for fun, and she started yelling and saying "stop being mean! stop being mean!" and she got really scared after seeing a new moon poster w/ jacob on it, i mean wtf? and if u say something that she thinks is mean or not peaceful or whatever, she gets really sad and starts stomping. and the whole thing is such a facade. i mean is this for real? i'm honestly starting to get annoyed by it, but i think its mean to just kinda stay away from her?
Well, shes just at that point from depression, just relax and try not to do all that stuff, but try to keep it at simple as you can.
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There are more things Lucilius that frighten us than injure us and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. By Seneca Find out about Depression Job Related
Male Depression Due To Job Stress
Depression is a problem, which is faced, by most of the people worldwide. Though the statistics show that women are the most affected by this problem, reality bites. In reality men are more vulnerable to depression because of various factors. It is just the lack of diagnosed results that come to the limelight.
Men tend to have the attitude that nothing can deter them and they are strong enough to face such problems. However, this negligence in the long term aggravates the problem and makes it a chronic problem. Thus, nowadays the problem of male depression stands as a different category of depression as it needs special attention.
Men tend to hide their problems from health care specialists because of the overconfidence that, they can tackle the problem themselves. There are many factors, which cause male depression. One of the most prominent causes of male depression is job stress.
Job Stress as a factor of male depression
Apart from various other factors, job stress is the major factor from which most of the males in this world suffer. Males always have the responsibility of running a family and various other moral as well as professional responsibilities.
Though now the trend has changed in the sense that, even females are also contributing to the family's stock. The males always have to lead in situations. Hence, job stress becomes a very important factor behind male depression. There are some of the factors related to job, which causes this stress and consequently leads to depression.
The first and foremost problem that arises in a job is the performance stress. The person here is stressed time and again to give a better performance. He is often compared with others. This leads to mental depression and consequently male depression state. Another factor is the petty conflicts that arise amongst colleagues. Though, it is a very small and stupid reason to get depressed.
Prolonged conflicts with co-workers create a lot of tension and make the environment unsuitable for the person to work. Constant thinking and pondering over these conflicts lead to the same problem of male depression. Many a time it also happens that doing night shift and excessive overwork leads to mental overstressing and thus consequently leading to mental depression.
Conclusion
So, these were some of the major job-related factors that play a vital role in causing the problem of male depression in men. However, there are other trivial things also that contribute to the same.
Can they refuse me the job because of my medical history?
I've been offered a job (in the UK) depending on medical clearance. However, they ask about depression (which I've suffered from last year), fits (I had 4 in my life related to low blow sugar) and hospitalisation due to mental illness (I've been hospitalised when I was anorexic 7 years ago).
Can they refuse me the job because of my medical past?
My hospitalisation wasn't in a mental institution! Just a medical centre for eating disorders!.
Only if it won't allow you to do the job. But it does not sound like it to me, so I think you should be okay. If they go by something that has happened several years ago, thats a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. By George MacDonald Find out about Depression Over Avatar
With the New Avatars of Gambling, Blackjack has Reached New Heights
Gambling arouses addiction and greed. Gambling becomes an enduring source of failure and feeling of depression- things that can easily devastate any healthy person – all these are notions that have inhabited people’s minds for ages; but as the world grew advanced, these notions became loosened from their roots and now, they are only home to the minds of the super skeptical people. Otherwise, it’s been proved that gambling is more of an entertainment than addiction. People, who become addicted to it, become addicted to the fun factor, the thrill and not the money offered by gambling houses. The new age form of gambling known as online gambling, have ignited many debates. There are issues and problems that remain in the dark while there are aspects that have captured the hearts of many. Gambling has become all the more exciting an escape from the demanding chores of life. As far as having fun is concerned, the common notion that you will have to leave your home and go to some place called ‘casino’ to enjoy yourself. You can have fun in your very home with just a computer and an internet connection; since the most popular casino game of chance is now available on the internet and players from all around the world can enjoy playing blackjack with other like-minded players without leaving the home. The number of online gamblers is increasing everyday because of the sheer convenience it provides. People who used to travel to land-based casinos to make a fortune out of fun are now shifting to online casinos, just because of its level of convenience. However, players who were a dab hand at playing blackjack in land-based casinos did find it difficult to get a grip at the virtual version of this game but as time passed by, they are becoming experts by using the different softwares available. These softwares provide players with many options to have fun with. Blackjack is by far the most popular casino game and it has reached new heights with the advent of internet. Almost all varieties of this game are available on the internet just like the land-based casinos. You get the same kind of entertainment, the same fun and of course the same thrill while you go online to play this magnificent game.
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Why do I get so attached to objects that I dont even own?
Well there is something wrong with me i get attached to things and when I feel they leave me I get depressed but what I get attached to is weird.
My favorite show avatar: the last airbender went off t.v and they stopped showing new episodes I was depressed for 2 weeks because I felt it left me. But it is like that with all my fave t.v shows that go off of t.v.
ANd it happens with movies when the movie ends I get sad because it is over or because my life isnt as good as the people in the movies, i pretty sure that happens to everybody though.
Also, I get attached to other things too, and when I feel they leave I jsut go into a depression.
Is this weird should I see a doctor?
I think what your feeling is normal. But if ur depression lasts for a long time you might wanna tell ur parents so they can maybe get u a therapist to talk to. I think it could just mean you need a relationship ,like many others do and feel lonely because they don't even know how to make a friend.
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The First Stock Market Crash
Frederick H. Ecker became President of the Metropolitan on March 26, 1929, and associated with him as Vice Presidents were Robert L. Cox and Leroy A. Lincoln. Mr. Cox died in January of the following year, and Mr. Lincoln immediately assumed the position of second in command. He succeeded to the Presidency in March 1936, when Mr. Ecker became Chairman of the Board. When the new administration took office in 1929, the country was enjoying what appeared to be great prosperity.
Many men in business and in public life believed that we had attained a depression-less economy. Corporate earnings were at a high level. There was frenzied activity in the stock market and in the flotation of new securities. Prices of common stocks reached dizzy peaks. Credit was easy to obtain. The growth of the Metropolitan and of other life insurance companies reflected the optimistic spirit of the times. All prospered as a result of the great business activity and the high rate of employment at good wages then prevalent throughout the country.
The first hundred billion dollars of life insurance rates (http://www.equote.com/li/termlifeinsurance-quote.html) in force had been attained; predictions were being confidently made that within another 10 years the second hundred billion would be added. But in October 1929 came the first manifestation of a series of cataclysms which shook the country and the world. The first stock market crash came almost out of a clear sky. The full significance of this indication of economic distress was little understood at the time. Many people suffered immediate losses. Many held on to their securities while prices were dropping sharply, only to sell them at even lower figures at a later date, or to be closed out for lack of margin.
Nevertheless, there were many in high places that refused to believe that this was more than a temporary financial setback. Although the national income fell in 1930 and 1931, it was still at a fairly high level. Because of the low prices to which common stocks had fallen, various recommendations were made in the late autumn of 1929 urging the life insurance companies to make such purchases in anticipation of rapid economic recovery.
The State laws governing life insurance investments specifically forbade such venturing. Undoubtedly great havoc would have been wrought in the financial structures of many companies and great losses suffered by policy holders if such advice could have been taken. The market quotations as they dropped from month to month thoroughly confirmed the prophetic warnings of Mr. Ecker, and justified his insistence that the law limiting the character of the investment portfolio of Life insurance companies should remain essentially unchanged.
The life insurance companies stood firm. Because of the character of their portfolios, they were not seriously affected by the declining values. In some respects, the very nature of the upset at the close of 1929 reacted favorably upon the companies. Many individuals who had lost heavily in the stock market felt called upon to increase their Life insurance in order to make good the losses to the estates which they had hoped to build up for their families.
Thus, in the years immediately following the first stock market crash, ordinary insurance made unparalleled gains and was becoming closer and closer to offering life insurance without exam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImphGeRVCCcterm). In 1930 the Metropolitan issued, exclusive of business revived or increased, close to $1,400,000,000 of ordinary insurance, the highest annual figure in the history of this department up to that time. But even this figure was exceeded by a considerable margin the following year, when a total of more than $1,460,000,000 was achieved. In fact, 1931 has remained the banner year for the writing of ordinary insurance in the Metropolitan.
Even in the industrial department there was an issue of $1,110,000,000 in 1930, only 8% less than in its peak year of 1929. In 1931 the industrial insurance issued still exceeded $1,000,000,000. In both the ordinary and the industrial departments, the total insurance in force continued to increase without interruption through the year 1931. Apparently, the economic situation up to that time had not yet seriously affected the ability of the American people to purchase or maintain life insurance.
A great Ronald Reagan quote - have you heard it before?
Ronald Reagan said this during his 1980 Presidential debates with Jimmy Carter, regarding the economy:
"A recession is when your neighbour loses his job; a depression is when you lose yours. And recovery will be when Jimmy Carter loses his."
Lol, what do you think - classic Ronnie quote! :p
My favorite Reagan quote is:
"The government's view of the economy can be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
That was a classic, and if I'm not mistaken, totally original.
Kudos to Chris above who recognized Reagan's recession/depression quote as belonging to Truman. Reagan had a genius for borrowing quotes and popularizing them. Once he said them, it was hard to imagine them coming out of anyone else's mouth.
I really miss Reagan and his great sense of humor. He cheered us all up and got us out of the Carter "malaise daze". I still keep his stamps in my wallet, even though I've moved to Europe.
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