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Earned it we have...
- May 4, 2022
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I know we've probably discussed this to death but, I felt like talking about it again.
I think a (reasonable) argument that ideation is a symptom of mental illness is that- it surely isn't natural. There simply aren't all that many cases of suicide in the natural world. I know there will be some but- considering the billions of animals that have lived here- suicide doesn't seem to be a major cause of death amongst animals.
So- does that mean they don't contemplate it or, their SI is so strong that they do contemplate it but, can't bring themselves to do it? Maybe we'll never entirely know. What we do know though is- humans are capable of doing both. We clearly have something they don't. I suppose it's a developed sense of self awareness and awareness of this world. So then- why are we even comparing something that we have and the rest of the animal kingdom doesn't and then, making judgements on whether it is functioning as it should be?
I'm not denying that sometimes depression doesn't seem to have a cause. If it comes out the blue or- if it lingers- even after a person's situation seems to have improved dramatically then maybe- it is a change in how that brain is functioning.
Still- if a person's life is shit. They can see that it's shit and they have no idea how to make it less shit- why is that depression? Why is that the brain malfunctioning? Surely, that's simply awareness going- 'Oh hell no! I don't like this. How do I get out of it?'
I think a (reasonable) argument that ideation is a symptom of mental illness is that- it surely isn't natural. There simply aren't all that many cases of suicide in the natural world. I know there will be some but- considering the billions of animals that have lived here- suicide doesn't seem to be a major cause of death amongst animals.
So- does that mean they don't contemplate it or, their SI is so strong that they do contemplate it but, can't bring themselves to do it? Maybe we'll never entirely know. What we do know though is- humans are capable of doing both. We clearly have something they don't. I suppose it's a developed sense of self awareness and awareness of this world. So then- why are we even comparing something that we have and the rest of the animal kingdom doesn't and then, making judgements on whether it is functioning as it should be?
I'm not denying that sometimes depression doesn't seem to have a cause. If it comes out the blue or- if it lingers- even after a person's situation seems to have improved dramatically then maybe- it is a change in how that brain is functioning.
Still- if a person's life is shit. They can see that it's shit and they have no idea how to make it less shit- why is that depression? Why is that the brain malfunctioning? Surely, that's simply awareness going- 'Oh hell no! I don't like this. How do I get out of it?'