If anyone wants to read the article Farmerman is referring to, here is the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/22/health/psychology/22hypo.html?th&emc=th
You might have to sign up for the NYTimes, but it's free and you can easily cancel.
I don't know if I fit that profile. I'm not that confident, and I don't think I've accomplished very much.
But this part makes a lot of sense to me.
"Usually what happens in the clinical domain," Dr. Whybrow said, "is that these people come in when they've had a business reversal and they're very depressed. They look back on their lives and realize that they were hyperactive, hypomanic, that they started a lot of projects but finished very few of them."
Thats BS, ANybody that listens to a psychiatrist oughta have his head examined
Yeah! Quacks, every single damn one of 'em! Who was the one who suggested reading that idiotic article in the first place? Should we kick the **** out of 'em?
kickycan wrote: ... they started a lot of projects but finished very few of them."
Er, I thought everyone did this?
Clearly, some other people are starting very few projects but finishing a lot of them. Quite a trick if you can manage it.
I agree with Joe. I like the way this thread keeps changing and morphing into something else, in a meaningless, meandering way...just like life, and the lost souls who are cursed with it.
move to beantown. it's where the beans are.
they're good for your heart.
Closer to Italy than Austin...
And closer to Austin than Italy. Can't lose.
But there's that damn snow to think about...
I'll bet you think about snow in Austin, too. Thoughts like, "Poor bastards up north shovelling all that damned snow..."
Wow, Kicky...sounded like you needed a great big hug at the beginning of all of this. We all have these times. When I would have them, my sister would say...you have to have the bad times to appreciate the good. That would always piss me off more.
that damned snow is coming down right now. but it's for the last time, i tell ya. and then, who will appreciate the spring more than the beantowners? where will the spring be more beautiful? nowhere, that's where! i can't bloody friggin wait! other than the snow crap, i'm in love with this city. or cities. cambridge and somerville is where it's at. yeah. i need to go to bed. g'night.
hotsauce, yep, even Kicky's get the blues...but now I feel great again!
By the way, I bought the Myth of Sysyphus, by Camus tonight. Someone, I think it was Adrien, recommended it way back on page 2 of this thread or something.
I just started it. So far he's talking about why, even though life is pointless, suicide is not the necessary decision that one should make based on that conclusion. It's a bit over my head, to tell you the truth, but if I read real slow and ask you A2K geniuses questions as I read it, I'm sure I'll figure out exactly what the secret of life is by the time I'm done with it.
I bet it has to do with living somewhere where it doesn't snow...
