It is yet another session on identifying causes and symptoms of depression it made her feel sometimes.
“It seems that some people enjoy being depressed,” opines a participant, “Life is too hard to face otherwise.”
“We need to understand that antidepressants put them in a transitional phase, and effects need to be carefully monitored. One could try placebos instead, but remember that it is perhaps the withdrawal of a sugar-coated placebo which caused the ailment.”
“Hmmm … broken promises, unfulfilled dreams, end of illusion and so on ….”
“Give them something real now, even if it is hard to digest.”
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I am intrigued by the “sugar coated placebo”; a whole other prompt in that term, perhaps. Nice take on this prompt.
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Thank you, D.Avery!
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To experience the real thing it is something not for the sugar coated beneficiaries. Nice use of the prompt.
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Thank you, Lisa!
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In a general sense, it seems as if we have become much more of a “here’s a pill for that” culture. The easy/instant cure. Never a big fan of “medication”, there are those who need such medication but for the rest of us? Perhaps the answer lies in exactly what you expressed in the last sentence.
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Thank you, Denise!
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It’s sad, but some people seem to like being unhappy and having something about which to complain. Not true depression, that. The real thing is horrible.
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It is about attracting attention. I know a lady who would get hysterical fits (clenched teeth and all) when she did not like something. Miraculously, the same disappeared after her husband’s death. Maybe she realised there was no one around to care or respond.
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And, unfortunately, as with bodyweight and other expectations of the self, children are fed the placebos by parents, family and friends before they are old enough to realize they have (other) choices.
Reality, especially the first one presented by the child’s parents*, is quite malleable yet equally persistent. Without realizing it, many hobble their children.
*reference to the works of Carlos Castaneda. In one of the early books his protagonist, don Juan, describes how a child is ‘taught’ the world by those around them.
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It is said that personalities are formed before the age of 8.
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My dad used to refer to people as “comfortably miserable.”
Good six, good use of the cue.
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Thank you. UP!
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I liked it. Thought-provoking with dialogue taking the pace. Powerful – especially that last line!
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Thanks so much!
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