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Thank you.
Thank you for revealing that snip of that story to me. It is rather beautiful and easily makes me think of the way I enjoy writing. I'm so sorry I'm not saying much, I've just been ridiculously depressed and chronically anxious lately. I have been since I was little, but lately it's been getting worse. I'm having to file for disability and I just feel so very pathetic about it.
I'm thinking when I'm on disability (which I'm pretty positive I'll be accepted for because of my mega intelligent psychiatrist), I was going to spend my days learning and learning as much as I can. I'm an atheist now because I've simply given up on God. So I want to learn more about the Big Bang and evolution (which all my life I've been intrigued by). I also want to learn more about mental health.
Do you know any super detailed books on these subjects that I can order off thriftbooks.com?
Bonus question: how many vocabulary words should I focus on a week?
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Hi there! I wonder why it is that when we are in the grip of conditions which are psychaitric we feel pathetic, inadequate and embarrassed? We do not feel this about physiological matters. Say, breaking a limb or an infection. Just stay positive. Even on the darkest days there is always one thing in this world which is bigger than your depression and anxiety. And that thing is TIME. I've no religious conviction myself either. If you want to look into a world where man acknowledges and accepts responsibilty for his state, actions and very existence (rather than passing the buck to 'Gods' and the supernatural) I would suggest any works by Professor Richard Dawkins. On the human condition the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustave Jung is a proper intellectual 'hero' of mine. Much of his work circulates around the theory that what we call 'our life' is purely the actions of attaching some 'meaning' to the cold fact of our mere existence. Dawkins argues that, why do we feel the need for a higher power, for 'something more'? Isn't the fact of our existence, the magnificent spectacle of our world enough? How much 'more' do we need? Likewise, I would number Nietzsche among my heroes. He proposed that our ever-increasing scientific knowledge had 'killed God' but we had yet to come up with anything capable of replacing a God. If we are to live in our 'godless world' man has to step-up and become more than himslef. Become 'super-man' and be held accountable. To choose right because it IS RIGHT, not because he fears the punishment of gods if he doesn't. What a supreme crowning glory that would be for mankind, eh? Any investigation into the world of mental conditions must surely begin with Freud? There is no 'normal person', there is only 'normal behaviour'. Thus there are only people who have identified their particular tendency to divert from the normal behaviour and act to correct it (The Compensated). And those who have not identified it, and so cannot (or will not) correct it. (The Uncompensated). I'm not very clued-in on people who can wax lyrical on the origins of the big bang and matters of the cosmos I'm afraid. It's a bit out of my sphere! OK, a lot out of! Carl Sagan? SETI? Anything in the CERN project (that huge 'collider' thing in Switzerland. Fundamental particles and all that. I'd imagine that's all about breaking existence down to it's most basic building block?).It is possibly a pretty fruitless path to add random words to our vocabulary in the hopes of being able to use them at some point! How about, no targets. Just write down some stuff, and if you feel there should be a single word which could replace a whole sentence (or more!) then identify it? There usually is! Lovely to hear from you. Perfectionist, author, seeker. I like you!
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