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The old classic "Give yourself a good shake."
The "good shake" is still considered valid by many of today's mental health care practitioners. It doesn't actually work on the person suffering from depression and it may even be enough to push them into further despair and feelings of worthlessness but it really makes the advisor feel a heck of a lot better.
The "good shake" has transmogrified into "get yourself down to the gym" and is now considered practically a cure for depression by modern advocates of the "good shake" philosophy.
Intolerance is still held as a virtue towards the mentally ill by many people (even those who actually work in this field); and the "Good shake" is a wonderful way of bypassing understanding and empathy amongst the intolerant and impatient. They hold true to the "good shake" mantra and find it jettisons many of a depressed person out of their sphere altogether. The prolonged absence of the depressed individual after said advice being considered a "Success" on behalf of the practitioners of the "good shake" philosophy - of which there are no short a number.
So to all you "good shakers" out there - keep up the good work as you gain so much from your wonderful sharing and giving means of helping those who are vulnerable. Perhaps one day those who suffer from depression will no longer require the "good shake" mantra and simply gain the strength to "get on with things" like everyone else seems to do.
Until then we are grateful for all those who chose the "good shake" way of dealing with people who might have inadvertently chosen depression as their illness of choice.
Bless each and everyone of you.
robert.
------(I just want to say that there are times I have been intolerant towards those I didn't understand (bubblin' under). Thankfully I (with the help of others or sometimes on my own) have managed to "catch myself on" following these moments of intolerance or personal unhappiness when I projected my own pain and frustration onto those who didn't deserve it. I know this is a part of being human but I still want to say sorry for my own imperfection and hope we will all grow stronger towards realizing our own faults and prejudices before we inflict our sense of personal failure onto those who deserved better. All of us with mental illness will know the pain of experience of being judged by those who failed to understand and fell back on some classics of intolerance. I want to realize my own anger at those times I don't understand and that my anger comes from my own lack of understanding and frustration with myself - it never belonged to or was the fault of those I wrongly Judged.
for all of us - and the times we fail to understand.
I understand the above applies to myself at times.
robert.
The "good shake" is still considered valid by many of today's mental health care practitioners. It doesn't actually work on the person suffering from depression and it may even be enough to push them into further despair and feelings of worthlessness but it really makes the advisor feel a heck of a lot better.
The "good shake" has transmogrified into "get yourself down to the gym" and is now considered practically a cure for depression by modern advocates of the "good shake" philosophy.
Intolerance is still held as a virtue towards the mentally ill by many people (even those who actually work in this field); and the "Good shake" is a wonderful way of bypassing understanding and empathy amongst the intolerant and impatient. They hold true to the "good shake" mantra and find it jettisons many of a depressed person out of their sphere altogether. The prolonged absence of the depressed individual after said advice being considered a "Success" on behalf of the practitioners of the "good shake" philosophy - of which there are no short a number.
So to all you "good shakers" out there - keep up the good work as you gain so much from your wonderful sharing and giving means of helping those who are vulnerable. Perhaps one day those who suffer from depression will no longer require the "good shake" mantra and simply gain the strength to "get on with things" like everyone else seems to do.
Until then we are grateful for all those who chose the "good shake" way of dealing with people who might have inadvertently chosen depression as their illness of choice.
Bless each and everyone of you.
robert.
------(I just want to say that there are times I have been intolerant towards those I didn't understand (bubblin' under). Thankfully I (with the help of others or sometimes on my own) have managed to "catch myself on" following these moments of intolerance or personal unhappiness when I projected my own pain and frustration onto those who didn't deserve it. I know this is a part of being human but I still want to say sorry for my own imperfection and hope we will all grow stronger towards realizing our own faults and prejudices before we inflict our sense of personal failure onto those who deserved better. All of us with mental illness will know the pain of experience of being judged by those who failed to understand and fell back on some classics of intolerance. I want to realize my own anger at those times I don't understand and that my anger comes from my own lack of understanding and frustration with myself - it never belonged to or was the fault of those I wrongly Judged.
for all of us - and the times we fail to understand.
I understand the above applies to myself at times.
robert.