silverback_79

silverback_79 t1_izwdy8b wrote

I've been on sick leave for three years due to injuries, every year the compensation gets reduced, I survive (barely) on $1060/month atm. The depression is real. The anxiety is realer. Currently seeing group therapy to stop relying on putting my hands under a hot water faucet to stop the grinding recurring negative thoughts.

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silverback_79 t1_iw6b0cu wrote

Kierkegaard has a charitable view of people, as is the basic position of humanism and existentialism. Jesus said "I bring the sword". Ie he gives people the choice to either love the other or get out of the way. You can't have the cake and eat it too, you can't help your friends and family while still retaining a confirmation-starved ego and putting yourself up as No.1.

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silverback_79 t1_iw4bhs8 wrote

I found him in 2005 (age 26), I took a philosophy 101 to get enough scores to get into uni, changed my life. His mercy is the best mercy. Made me a humanist on the spot.

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silverback_79 t1_iuk8ftg wrote

Political analysts made clear years ago that Putin's reason for swinging the sabre is to silence domestic opposition, in the simplistic trick Goebbels codified already in the early '30s: "Enact martial law, start a war, and anyone who opposes you will be called 'unpatriotic, and lose their voice.'"

Putin couldn't care less if he takes all of the Ukraine with no further loss in manpower. He's already achieved the goal of "nobody even breathe a word of dissent now" mood in the Duma. Litterally, an article commented six months ago how quiet every session is today, just Putin rambling a bit, some experts say some rehearsed stuff, and then the session is ended, no body sticking their necks out from the other side of the isle, just content to still be allowed in there.

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silverback_79 t1_isd55zb wrote

I was given Sertraline and after five months of good progress my dose was upped, and a month later I had a euphoric lapse. For two months my mind broke and the walls between reality and fantasy all but vanished.

I voluntarily committed myself, and after a month of evaluation and care I was informed I had gotten a bipolar diagnosis. Today, two years later, I'm still not myself again.

So yeah, I would have liked the test OP talks about.

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