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The most common refrain you hear from dysthymia sufferers here is that they have tried everything and nothing works. They are also often totally unaware that there is a dedicated form of psychotherapy made specifically for the unique features of dysthymia that make it difficult to treat. The book below is the easiest exposition of that treatment, and is a memoir by the creator of that therapy. Everyone should read to at least see if they can see echoes of themselves in what Dr. McCullough is talking about.

https://www.amazon.com/Swimming-Upstream-Story-about-Becoming/dp/1645301567/ref=mp\_s\_a\_1\_3?crid=1P73WZLRWSGG6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.H7ZPpCpNEYjwsHc9ODb4PJcGpWhRKEJPAyBHC048hRQc4y2vTelGKbXNz6kGU6MqF4NSvoz6Cj40djSLVcSu9J2ehuOYG47-TWLxC9x5JOmJpq2769xm-lrxc5cnDbzuCjs3RCuf0lKkctw-zef9PCabCY06wZ0OPWqq45VBhWiQZ6nfZyu4KL\_ZbprVv5NSLOUe-3BxQrhp3ixCOqR5IQ.6hCW1iKfyYmvftMd3O4Mj6S3hnr3kGsp6tqsrRQUsmo&dib\_tag=se&keywords=swimming+upstream+book&qid=1783189742&sprefix=swimming+upstr%2Caps%2C189&sr=8-3

Curious if TLC were as popular in the black community as they were in the general community or if they were considered a too light rap group who crossed over too much?

I know Russo's been done to death, but one thing always sticks out in my mind that was a glaring contradiction. Russo did not like wrestling, the actual activity that went on in the ring. He felt no one in the year 2000 was interested in scripted, fake combat and only by not featuring it much would people be interested in their television show. Featuring the Jerry Springer crash TV was what people wanted to see.

That raises an obvious question though. Why are they even doing a wrestling show then? Why is there a ring at the center of the television show? Why do t we just actually do the Jerry Springer 2.0 show?

So if the higher ups still felt that they technically owned a wrestling company how do you square that with Russo's booking philosophy to make a successful company?

I remember treading years ago in the book Feeling Good in the chapter on behavioral activation Burns mentioned an artist or writer who believed there were totally incapable of producing any more art and were challenged to just put a line on paper and then proceed from there.

I feel I am in a situation where I am in complete inertia due to depression. I lay in bed all day on my phone and would like to accomplish something, but don't know how. I feel part of the problem is behavioral, I just have a habit of being lazy, and partly mental, I exaggerate how difficult anything will be.

What is a resource that's helps counter this type of inertia?

I have a number of mental illnesses including OCD and my mind is a constant clutter that is alway screaming at me and churning and won't shut up for a nanosecond. I'd like to get into mindfulness and meditation, but I'm going to be really, really bad at it. What's a good, gentle book that eases you into the process in a basic way?

I have a number of mental illnesses including OCD and my mind is a constant clutter that is alway screaming at me and churning and won't shut up for a nanosecond. I'd like to get into mindfulness and meditation, but I'm going to be really, really bad at it. What's a good, gentle book that eases you into the process in a basic way?

Whenever people ask what opinion you have that everybody would disagree with about Star Trek, mine is Section 31 alone had the right idea of how to fight the Dominion. Unlike any other enemy the Founders did not believe their troops and materials were part of them. The Jem Hadar were literally created to be cannon fodder and a diversion. You waste your resources battling them in an attrition war while the founders sit back and let it all happen around them. They are happy to engage in endless war as long as it doesn't affect them. The only way they get involved is through changeling subterfuge which always works unless you have plot armor.

So if you don't want to threaten the Founders as a whole, knowing that traditional war is useless and what the Founders actually want, how would you have fought the Dominion war?

One of the repeating tropes in MASH is "meatball surgery" operating on soldiers only enough to keep them alive and stabilized so hospitals out of the war zone can operate on them more completely. So the main idea of meatball surgery was it had to be complete enough to make the patient safe for travel, but quick enough to allow many casualties to be operated on. This was also shown as a skill to be learned, why such a gifted surgeon as Charles struggled in the beginning.

Anybody with surgical knowledge know exactly about how long these types of surgeries would take? Obviously it depends on the amount of damage, and MASH has shown that sometimes hard decisions must be made to save the most lives, but are we talking 30 minutes or a matter of hours?

I have found I have come to a point where my attention span for new things is basically zero. Between the MD and the IPhone my attention is shit. I can't read books or focus my attention on anything for more than a minute. Does anyone have difficulty focusing because they can't quiet there MD more than a minute?

Assuming that life is abundant in the universe and evolution is common. Would life on other planets develop in similar ways to humans? I mean this specifically in several categories.

1. Would they all have the same basic physiology and functions? If I autopsied one would I find the same organs and systems as humans: cardiovascular, Respiratory, Nervous, etc. Would I be able to recognize organs like the heart lungs, digestive organs?

2. Again if we could examine them would we find there were classes of life we could recognize such as mammals, fish, reptiles, etc. Or would we see animals that we had no idea what they were and were totally indigenous to that planet?

The tl:dr is does evolution have rules to how life develops, or is whatever adaption works?

People here like to say the early films portray Apollo as a world class fighter ala Ali, who would have even beat Rocky or Drago in his prime. That he lost to Drago because old fighters shouldn't be in the ring, again like Ali.

But the films 4-6 lean heavily into Rocky being eternally youthful. He tells Apollo that isn't "us" anymore, but clearly it was Rocky as he won. After retirement he still beats one reigning champ in the street and takes another the distance.

Do the later films, even inadvertently, give short shrift to Apollo to glorify Rocky?

The first Homo sapiens appeared 300,000 years ago. While anatomically very close to modern people there have also been huge changes that fundamentally affect how we view ourselves as people today. Language, culture, philosophy, science all created people who operate in the world very differently from the first HS(I'm assuming, please tell me if I am actually wrong). In biology is there any formal distinction made between the HS who lives long ago who didn't speak or write or live in large societies and today's human?

We've come to realize that gorillas are more chill and docile than we previously thought from media. Like if you don't go bother them they won't bother you. But they are also territorial and if you impose on the wild or get into there zoo enclosure it wlll be dangerous.

So would it be dangerous in the wild if a gorilla sees you a hundred years away? Or if an escaped gorilla is walking down the street, but you give it a really wide birth? I presume if a tiger saw you even from a distance they're going to attack, but what would gorillas do?

Any philosophers or theologians specifically zero in on what the supernatural means, how it operates, how we know it?

Looking for a book that discusses when you are entering the last phase of your life(maybe 20-25 years left) how do you decide what you want to do and how you can make it happen while facing the challenges of aging. Looking for mostly practical books, nothing spiritual or how to face death type stuff, just what do I oreally want to do in the time I have left.

Looking for a book that discusses when you are entering the last phase of your life(maybe 20-25 years left) how do you decide what you want to do and how you can make it happen while facing the challenges of aging. Looking for mostly practical books, nothing spiritual or how to face death type stuff, just what do I y want to do in the time I have left.

We all know the joke about Riker being a horndog and all, but thinking more seriously about it I am wondering if Riker comes across as one of the few humans who is actually fun to hang around?

Star Trek wants to present humans as so emotionally evolved that they actually come across as boring and elitist. They drink alcohol which doesn't get them drunk. Not only do they not use drugs they give their youth stern lectures about how bad they are. They seem to have very little actual casual sex and often feel embarrassed when they do. It's only barely hinted at that the holodeck can be used as porn. They only play and listen to classical music and Shakespeare.

Riker seems alway in pursuit of casual sex even with strangers. He eats real eggs. He plays jazz trombone. He announces to the crew he'll be jacking it in the holodeck. He gambles at Quark's and wins. His signature move is a sitting technique that doubles as a genital-thrusting power move. Riker seems to be the only human with some oomph to him. Bashir has the sex part, even the holodeck porn, but nothing else. Is Riker the last real human in the 24th century?

Thinking about the Misty Roberts case and what the usual reaction is to teenage boy/hot older woman relationships. I started to wonder if we have an actual studies about whether or not the boys did fundamentally enjoy the relationship.

When you were legally underage did you ever have a sexual encounter with a conventionally beautiful older woman and did you at the time and now feel it was a positive or negative experience?

Just curious if there has been discussion about what Schrödinger's thought experiment means to the ideas of non-contradiction and excluded middle and who had those discussions from a philosophical perspective.

Ok this will be a weird post because it has more to do with my personal OCD and attempt to be more compassionate to myself.

About 10 years ago i was quite a good crossword player. I reached the point where i could solve any crossword you put in front of me, but it may take me an hour to do it. I think i was even top 25 at the LA tournament.

I fell out of crosswords for a bit but have rediscovered my love lately. I am older, my mind is not as sharp. Wednesday and Thursday are still a lock and about 65% on Friday and Saturday. If I haven't solved the puzzle after 20 minutes I hit check puzzle.

I feel embarrassed because I had this idea in my mind that I was a really good crossworder and that is not what really good crossworders do. Funny thing is I actually enjoy it. It's like you see where your mistakes were and you start again with new ideas that lead you to new solutions. It's personally fun but also a little hit to my ego.

What do you think? Do you get embarrassed? Is ultimately loving what you're doing the point?