09-04-2016, 12:44 PM
It's not an easy path, but it is a path to change for the better. Much respect.
There is a secret that my advisor taught me, a long time ago, when I was still suicidally depressed, and it really helped me get past that depression and avoid doing something stupid to myself. That secret is:
In other words, when we focus too much in the "now", and things are not going well, we lose sight of the fact that everything happens in cycles and that change is the only constant.
No matter how bad things are, not only will they change, but we have a new opportunity to change them for the better every single second of every single day!
And when you consider that life is measured in decades, not days or months or hours, and you realize that change really is the only constant... well, it really starts to put things in perspective.
Back when I was suicidally depressed, from ages 16 through 23, I didn't understand that. Once I understood that, even the worst of my depressive episodes could not get me to try to hurt myself. I realized that not only would I be hurting my mother and family and friends, but that I would be wasting all of my potential for doing good in the world and making the world a better place.
In many cases, those people who make the biggest contributions and biggest changes to the world are people who had to experience their own private hell in order to understand and be motivated to produce those changes. Now look at me, I'm building programs like E2 (and later, E3) which help people help themselves with depression and give them another way to grow past their pain and hurt. I couldn't have done that if I had not spent those years suffering that hell.
So now you are dealing with something similar. Now you are understanding this pain and suffering, and when you have finished coming to understand it, you can become someone who turns around and makes a positive difference for others who are going through it. You can help save someone else from having to suffer the way you did, and that makes your suffering worth having been through.
Remember this. You can achieve anything you choose to achieve. The question is, are you willing to try?
E2. Keep going.
There is a secret that my advisor taught me, a long time ago, when I was still suicidally depressed, and it really helped me get past that depression and avoid doing something stupid to myself. That secret is:
Quote:If you feel hopeless, then you're looking at it from the wrong scale.
In other words, when we focus too much in the "now", and things are not going well, we lose sight of the fact that everything happens in cycles and that change is the only constant.
No matter how bad things are, not only will they change, but we have a new opportunity to change them for the better every single second of every single day!
And when you consider that life is measured in decades, not days or months or hours, and you realize that change really is the only constant... well, it really starts to put things in perspective.
Back when I was suicidally depressed, from ages 16 through 23, I didn't understand that. Once I understood that, even the worst of my depressive episodes could not get me to try to hurt myself. I realized that not only would I be hurting my mother and family and friends, but that I would be wasting all of my potential for doing good in the world and making the world a better place.
In many cases, those people who make the biggest contributions and biggest changes to the world are people who had to experience their own private hell in order to understand and be motivated to produce those changes. Now look at me, I'm building programs like E2 (and later, E3) which help people help themselves with depression and give them another way to grow past their pain and hurt. I couldn't have done that if I had not spent those years suffering that hell.
So now you are dealing with something similar. Now you are understanding this pain and suffering, and when you have finished coming to understand it, you can become someone who turns around and makes a positive difference for others who are going through it. You can help save someone else from having to suffer the way you did, and that makes your suffering worth having been through.
Remember this. You can achieve anything you choose to achieve. The question is, are you willing to try?
E2. Keep going.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
