Depression and Finding Motivation

[magpies]

Become an evil mad scientist that will cure any depression.

 

[cragar]

do hot yoga. it is very intense at first but when you get in shape you will like you have a lot more energy .

 

[rewebster]

A lot of it goes back to the nature/nurture if you want to do some self examination of your 'attitude/disposition/status'. Some people can do it better than others due to the nature/nurture of who they are (what they have come to know).

Motivation is big business and there's reasons why it is. The 'stuck in a rut' feeling is more from 'nurture' in my opinion, and its one reason why people take vacations and 'do' things.

And, sometimes just a small change in habits is enough to initiate motivation. Its not like the nature/nurture sometimes 'stuck in a rut' is new to the world.

I sort of hate to bring to a 'oh, no, not this again', but for some, looking at it as a '12-step program' is realistic.

One of my basic mantras (and I seem to have quite a few of them) is that its better to know something than not to know something. So, reading to know something that relates to what one is wondering about can't hurt.

The idea of "ignorance is bliss" only works for those who don't care, so reading about different attitudes may help to redefine one's attitude to broaden the scope of the various attitudes that have come to exist from other peoples' search for what is important and worthwhile. To me, its one of the first steps in realizing why you/someone is 'stuck in a rut'.

I read a lot of Edmund Burke when I was in college for my own example, and the I Ching .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching

 

[zoobyshoe]

One of the ways I can see myself overcoming this is making some of the ideas I have a reality, they are generally significant projects and the type of thing that will keep my mind stimulated. I guess I was interested to know if anyone here had overcome the motivation barrier to achieve certain goals, and if it ultimately led to a better state of mind overall.

There is, in fact, the psychological phenomenon of empowering. Succeeding with a project might make you feel generally better thereafter because it represents the overturning of a fixed idea that you are powerless to do one thing or another.

 

[rewebster]

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