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UAEebs86 wrote:

Phylek wrote:There's too much happening, right now. Our society is devolving. It's really hitting me. Facebook is not helping because I'm coming to realize how many people are truly racist.

I'm disheartened. Which says a lot. I had trouble getting out of bed this morning.

Facebook is Russian malware. Dump it

I dumped it years ago. My kid's school insists on communicating through it, but I refuse.

Chicat wrote: Never really thought of it like that. The article you mention actually posits that depression is a natural and historic trait that serves a purpose of ordering our thoughts and dwelling on issues so we can analytically solve them.

I'm more inclined to your line of thinking. I used to lay down and watch clouds go by as a kid. My kids have literally never done that. And of course I haven't done that either. There is so little time in our waking lives for complete quiet even in our own minds.

Late reply but, yes the article is great. On top of agreeing that depression is meant to turn our thoughts to digging around in our mind, one addition to this that I want to very clearly make is how this plays out in our time of addictive digital stimuli, social media for example.

When we experience depression the act of checking twitter or instagram reinforces not only depression due to being confronted with unreal standards of beauty, adventure, and the sense of competition to keep up, but this act keeps our minds in a reactive, superficial state that's eroded of the quiet time needed in our brains.

Along with the longer term chemical activity, a lot of what spikes in-the-moment episodes of depression are reminders of how we failed somewhere or didn't live up to something. And in the past, these quiet times in our brain allowed us to come to terms and get used to realizing the scaled back existence of private contentment, which in the long term can continually address matters of regret and loss as they arise.

I worry that today's endless use of phones has completely roadblocked this capacity from our ability to address depression; I worry that our constantly online lives uproot our long evolved subconscious mechanisms of addressing depression.

CatsbyAZ wrote:

I worry that today's endless use of phones has completely roadblocked this capacity from our ability to address depression; I worry that our constantly online lives uproot our long evolved subconscious mechanisms of addressing depression.

^^^^^^^^This.

During these Corona-days our walks never present a person under 45 years old simply walking without being plugged into his/her phone. It's as if simple silence and solitude has become disruptive and unhealthy.

Heading to Pinetop for a long weekend Saturday. Going to do my best to completely unplug when I'm there. Picked up a couple books to read instead of my Kindle app. The people I talk to most will be there. My life has been an endless groundhog day of bad news, working 50+ hours a week in the same room as my couch and tv, endless screen time, and crap tv for 90 days.

I am going to just spend time outside and hike a little. Talk to my wife and friends. Play cards. Grill and enjoy the cool mornings and highs. Definitely need this.

scumdevils86 wrote:Heading to Pinetop for a long weekend Saturday. Going to do my best to completely unplug when I'm there. Picked up a couple books to read instead of my Kindle app. The people I talk to most will be there. My life has been an endless groundhog day of bad news, working 50+ hours a week in the same room as my couch and tv, endless screen time, and crap tv for 90 days.

I am going to just spend time outside and hike a little. Talk to my wife and friends. Play cards. Grill and enjoy the cool mornings and highs. Definitely need this.

Dude just spent five glorious days at Fowler’s campground near mccloud in the mccloud River trail.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.campsi ... ers/%3famp" target="_blank

No cell reception just the wife and kids. Awesome hikes to three different waterfalls, kids got to “play ranger” ate/cooked damn good food, took my kids to Shasta and got them to the hut at the base at 8k where they could sign the register and play in snow in the middle of June.

They all loved it.

Naturally social distanced with other campers but still got to feel a part of it with other people. Just a cool trip and what we needed.

We are going somewhere else again in 3weekends. Wife wants to buy a travel trailer! Winning!

CalStateTempe wrote:

scumdevils86 wrote:Heading to Pinetop for a long weekend Saturday. Going to do my best to completely unplug when I'm there. Picked up a couple books to read instead of my Kindle app. The people I talk to most will be there. My life has been an endless groundhog day of bad news, working 50+ hours a week in the same room as my couch and tv, endless screen time, and crap tv for 90 days.

I am going to just spend time outside and hike a little. Talk to my wife and friends. Play cards. Grill and enjoy the cool mornings and highs. Definitely need this.

Dude just spent five glorious days at Fowler’s campground near mccloud in the mccloud River trail.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.campsi ... ers/%3famp" target="_blank

No cell reception just the wife and kids. Awesome hikes to three different waterfalls, kids got to “play ranger” ate/cooked damn good food, took my kids to Shasta and got them to the hut at the base at 8k where they could sign the register and play in snow in the middle of June.

They all loved it.

Naturally social distanced with other campers but still got to feel a part of it with other people. Just a cool trip and what we needed.

We are going somewhere else again in 3weekends. Wife wants to buy a travel trailer! Winning!

Livin' the dream! I love the smell of propane in the morning..........

I still break down in tears a few times a day. I get overwhelmed by sadness for a few minutes, and I breathe and I wait for a minute.

I remind myself that I am a white male American, who owns a home in a historic neighborhood, is employed with good health insurance and a wife and 2 kids who love him....


I am the American dream.


And then I cry again.


I speak to my therapist in Friday, and I am looking forward to it.

When daycare closes in Arizona as an irrational response to the irrational approach of basically encouraging the stupid to satisfy Trump, I think I'll try this double-shift schedule:

9 am - 5 pm: Daycare and homeschooling
6 pm - 2 am: Working at the job that pays me

I'm not a religious person but I may have to come around. God, give me the endurance I don't have inside me.

Hey that's still nearly a full night's sleep!

ASUHATER! wrote:Hey that's still nearly a full night's sleep!

That's what I was thinking. We're friends with another couple with a child our age who do that schedule, and I think it's worth trying. We were splitting the day with no variation seven days a week. This way we can work full time during the week and have a sense that Friday came.

Hell, that schedule gives you time to go next door and play cards on plague night.

Am I the only one here whose depression is transforming into deep anger and psychotic fucking hatred?

Longhorned wrote:Am I the only one here whose depression is transforming into deep anger and psychotic fucking hatred?

Only of Trump and his supporters.

Longhorned wrote:Am I the only one here whose depression is transforming into deep anger and psychotic fucking hatred?

The catharsis will come with the skull fucking.

Longhorned wrote:Am I the only one here whose depression is transforming into deep anger and psychotic fucking hatred?

No, but I'm starting to think there is a direct correlation with the amount of time I've been spending on Twitter. That shit isn't healthy. But I can't stop.

But on a positive note, I just got retweeted by a blue check mark. Shoot that validation straight into my veins!

Totally worth the hypertension and poor sleep.

ASUCatFan wrote:But on a positive note, I just got retweeted by a blue check mark. Shoot that validation straight into my veins!

Totally worth the hypertension and poor sleep.

Raffi once responded to one of my tweets, and liked another one.

Longhorned wrote:Am I the only one here whose depression is transforming into deep anger and psychotic fucking hatred?

No.

What do you do when you come to the realization that 2/3 of your professional activities (emails, projects, admin, mgmt) is just complete bullshit?

Lol I resemble that remark. My entire job is emails, projects, administration, management, calls, stand-ups, working sessions, check ins...

scumdevils86 wrote:Lol I resemble that remark. My entire job is emails, projects, administration, management, calls, stand-ups, working sessions, check ins...

And honestly, when you distill it all down, isn’t the vast majority of it a giant time suck that really doesn’t move the needle on anything?

Totally. I have a project I've been working on for a year that I found out yesterday was largely pointless due to a key detail being left out from 2 of my vendors. Totally dead on arrival. Probably spent 300 hours in the last year working on it in various forms (calls meetings testing etc) now it has to be on hold for the next year or more.

Longhorned wrote:When daycare closes in Arizona as an irrational response to the irrational approach of basically encouraging the stupid to satisfy Trump, I think I'll try this double-shift schedule:

9 am - 5 pm: Daycare and homeschooling
6 pm - 2 am: Working at the job that pays me

I'm not a religious person but I may have to come around. God, give me the endurance I don't have inside me.

Did UofA make any threats like this?

Staying home since March has finally gotten the best of me. We can't handle it anymore. Decided we needed a vacation of sorts. Going to La Paloma next week. Gonna social distance in the pools.

Don't blame you

Phylek wrote:Staying home since March has finally gotten the best of me. We can't handle it anymore. Decided we needed a vacation of sorts. Going to La Paloma next week. Gonna social distance in the pools.

If you have kids, they’ll love the water slide.

Pro Tip: The pool bar sells White Claw. I sneak it in and it doesn’t throw up any red flags. Unlike PBR.

wyo-cat wrote:

Phylek wrote:Staying home since March has finally gotten the best of me. We can't handle it anymore. Decided we needed a vacation of sorts. Going to La Paloma next week. Gonna social distance in the pools.

If you have kids, they’ll love the water slide.

Pro Tip: The pool bar sells White Claw. I sneak it in and it doesn’t throw up any red flags. Unlike PBR.

I'm all about the water slide. I'm usually the one adult in the line. I own that thing.

I've never had white claw, but it's never too late to learn. I usually just order Margaritas.

Funny story from my last visit. I ordered a mango Margarita from the server at the pool. She told me they don't have mango Margaritas, even though I knew they did. So I asked her for a mango daiquiri made with tequila instead of rum. She came back laughing. Apparently when she's ordered it from the bartender he looked at her like she was crazy and said, "so...a mango Margarita?"

Phylek wrote:Staying home since March has finally gotten the best of me. We can't handle it anymore. Decided we needed a vacation of sorts. Going to La Paloma next week. Gonna social distance in the pools.

I really don't want to rain on your parade, and I truly understand your plight, but please think about it again and listen to Mr. Jackson.

White Claw is the second worst thing I've ever had in my mouth.

^^

Yeah it’s disgusting

azgreg wrote:White Claw is the second worst thing I've ever had in my mouth.

What's number 1?

84Cat wrote:

azgreg wrote:White Claw is the second worst thing I've ever had in my mouth.

What's number 1?

I feel like that's going to be TMI.

Bartender: Why are you drinking so much?
Man: Celebrating my first blowjob
Bartender: Congratulations! Let me buy you a drink!
Man: No that's OK, if 8 beers won't get the taste out of my mouth nothing will

84Cat wrote:

azgreg wrote:White Claw is the second worst thing I've ever had in my mouth.

What's number 1?

Not going there. Let's just say I was a young man in Europe and leave it at that.

azgreg wrote:

84Cat wrote:

azgreg wrote:White Claw is the second worst thing I've ever had in my mouth.

What's number 1?

Not going there. Let's just say I was a young man in Europe and leave it at that.

Azgreg rules.

CalStateTempe wrote:

azgreg wrote:

84Cat wrote:

azgreg wrote:White Claw is the second worst thing I've ever had in my mouth.

What's number 1?

Not going there. Let's just say I was a young man in Europe and leave it at that.

Azgreg rules.

azgreg: unfettered and alive

azgreg wrote:White Claw is the second worst thing I've ever had in my mouth.

My kids tell me White Claw is for people on low carb & keto diets.

84Cat wrote:My kids tell me White Claw is for people on low carb & keto diets.

They never heard of hard liquor I guess.

84Cat wrote:My kids tell me White Claw is for people on low carb & keto diets.

I'm currently eating ice cream out of the container so I'm clearly not in that demographic.

I don't like sparkling water or things like LA Croix, but White Claw is good, especially at the pool.

White claw is a good pool drink if you don't want a beer.

White Claw is scary good and easy to drink.

I'd rather drink my own urine than White Claw.

azgreg wrote:I'd rather drink my own urine than White Claw.

Bear Grylls, is that you?

TucsonClip wrote:

azgreg wrote:I'd rather drink my own urine than White Claw.

Bear Grylls, is that you?

I'd wear a Rudy Carpenter jersey before I'd drink White Claw.

azgreg wrote:

TucsonClip wrote:

azgreg wrote:I'd rather drink my own urine than White Claw.

Bear Grylls, is that you?

I'd wear a Rudy Carpenter jersey before I'd drink White Claw.

I could mainline la croix

CalStateTempe wrote:I could mainline la croix

I'm only going to drink seltzer if it has alcohol in it, otherwise it's pointless. If I am going to drink something non alcoholic I'll have a water or a soda, not a weak flavored seltzer.

ASUHATER! wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:I could mainline la croix

I'm only going to drink seltzer if it has alcohol in it, otherwise it's pointless. If I am going to drink something non alcoholic I'll have a water or a soda, not a weak flavored seltzer.

My family goes through cases of seltzer a week. I don't drink soda at all, either too much sugar or artificial sweeteners. Although I probably drink more ice tea, unsweetened of course.

Canada Dry Mandarin Orange is my family's favorite. Perrier seltzer is good too.