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Michael Amman : I've heard it said that absolutely anything can be your teacher if you have both the time to study it... I've heard it said that absolutely anything can be your teacher if you have both the time to study it and the inclination.  Given the fact that I have had clinical depression for more than three decades it makes perfect sense to me that depression has, in spite of myself, taught me some valuable life lessons that I find applicable in a general sense outside of depression itself.  One of the most valuable lessons that I have learned, coincidentally also one that took the longest for me to philosophically wrap my head around, is the fact that my emotions cannot be trusted. Obviously we all have feelings.  We feel happy when we’re doing things that are fun, or spending time with our friends.  We feel love when we are with that special someone or someones.  We feel angry when we have been impugned or when situations seem unfair.  We feel sad when faced with tragedy or loss.  We feel hurt when inflicted with pain or injustice.  And on and on.  All of us have this range of emotions that we learn at an early age is key to understanding our internal state of being.  In addition we learn that there is a fairly simple and routine cause and effect equation that can determine why we’re feeling what we’re feeling or to predict what we will feel in given situations.  Most people master this simple formula of emotions early on and it serves them well for the rest of their lives.  Most people feel sad when they are faced with tragedy or disadvantage or despair.  They feel that sadness, they know that there was a cause, and they react accordingly.  In fact the severity of their sadness is something of a barometer for how serious the situation is to them.  That more serious the tragedy or disadvantage or despair means the more serious the sadness felt.  That equation provides emotional way marks to help that person navigate their lives. Clinical depression complicates the entire thing, and it took me a long time to realize that and properly understand exactly what that meant.  When I feel sad, which tends to be 80% of every day of every week of the year, it doesn't mean that there is a direct tragedy or disadvantage or despair causing the feelings.  Also there is no accurate barometer of severity that can be gauged by emotions with clinical depression.  For the most part I feel emotions in simple and manageable ways, or I feel them in overwhelming and paralyzing ways.  There is no sloping gradient of degree in between.  What that means to me is that if I am feeling sadness in an overwhelming capacity, which does not mean that I ought to be sad to the point of inactivity.  It’s a hard conclusion to reach.  We spend so much of our formative years being shown very clearly that our emotions are the indicators of our mood and our self.  We’re shown that our emotions are the driving force behind so much of our action and choice and motivation.  And it makes sense.  Humans have a capacity for emotion seemingly unmatched by any other species on the planet, why wouldn't we capitalize on those emotions with regards to our lifestyles.  The catch, again, with clinical depression is that your emotions are liars. I wake up feeling a strong sense of despair and sadness.  It’s day, like any other day, and there has been no external circumstance or stimuli to prompt these feelings.  Under the usual code where your feelings are indicative of mood and self, I would choose to be withdrawn, lethargic, anti-social and inactive for the day.  After all, I’m beset with despair and sadness as if my child had just died.  That would be the reasonable thing to do when faced with such overwhelming emotion.  And that is, for years, how I lived my life.  I would follow the indicators of my emotions wherever they led.  Not now.  Not when I can help it.  I know now that my emotions are vicious liars.  It isn't that my emotions are blatantly false.  They aren't   I feel sad and I feel despair and I feel anger legitimately.  In addition my emotions are absolutely accurate indicators for what my response is to the external circumstances around me.  It’s more that the severity scale of my emotions lacks certain credibility.  When I start crying in the car because a small thought passed through my head leading me to feeling sad, I know that the thought may not be SO sad that it is worth crying over.  It’s simply that my emotions will not always be scaled appropriately to the stimulus. What I have learned is that sometimes I simply to accept what I am feeling, but at the same time choose NOT to subscribe usual importance to the weight of the emotions.  If I am heavy with anger and despair I accept that I am feeling that and then keep going.  I will use breathing exercises to help manage the anger.  Keep quiet in large social situations so as not to say something in anger that I will regret later.  And so on.  But I don’t let the anger become my current state.  Not if I can help it. And it is the same with sadness, which as I said is how I feel almost all the time.  But this sadness is not, whenever I can prevent it, going to keep me in bed with tissue.  I continue with my day.  I understand that the sadness is there, I accept that at times I will cry over seemingly minuscule points (although to me they feel monumental).  I keep going.  I do not let my internal indication of how SERIOUS the sadness is affect the choices I make.  Because my emotions are liars. I think the truest indicator of how my emotions are not always honest with me is the way that I find myself experiencing conflicting emotions at the same time.  For the longest time, growing up, I assumed that if I felt SO SAD inside then it would be impossible to feel anything else.  When I was 17 years old I skipped school often.  My ex-girlfriend had just given birth to my son, and that son had died.  That coupled with my depression, the thought of college, and the fistful of anti-depressants I was taking everyday pretty much ruined every corner of my life.  So a buddy of mine and I would cut school early and go hiking in the woods.  We hiked all over the place three or four days a week.  Sometimes when we finished classes we would go out together and go hiking after school.  That time spent hiking in the woods is one of a very small handful of memories from high school that I have that I can remember without crying.  It was the best, given my situation.  Mostly I remember complaining about every single aspect of my life and how much I hated everything.  But sometimes we would tell stories to each other.  Or speculate about alternate realities.  Or just joke around.  I can remember one afternoon when we were hiking and he kept joking about aliens.  I don’t remember what it is that he was saying but I remember thinking the whole diatribe was so funny.  I laughed and laughed to the point where it was hard to breathe.  We had to stop and rest while I was laughing.  And I remember after that when we started hiking again, that I found myself upset.  Upset that I had found joy and laughter in a situation while I still felt so sad.  Surely the feeling of sadness was my true self.  Feeling laughter or joy while also feeling that sadness must have been some kind of mistake.  A grand transgression. I know better now.  I know that I am capable of feeling more than one thing at a time.  I can even feel conflicting emotions simultaneously.  The baseline of sadness is pretty much always there, but that doesn't mean I have to act sad or upset.  I can still act happy or excited or joyous while feeling that sadness.  I can act cordial or tranquil or quiet while feeling explosive rage.  The trick lies in acknowledging and feeling the emotion, but also being open to feeling other emotions at the same time.  If I were to try to deny my sadness or ignore my rage, I have found all too clearly that disaster ensues.  The emotions aren't lies in so far as they don’t exist.  They do exist.  They demand my attention.  They require me to feel them.  At the same time though they are lies in the sense that they may seem more severe than they are and also in that they don’t have to dictate how I behave. __________________________________ <a>Gretchen</a>: That is so fetch! <a>Regina</a>: Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen! 1 month ago - Via Google+ - View - Adrielle Santos : Watch the video: ANA India a Gretchen de SalvadoR ANA India a Gretchen de SalvadoR 2 months ago - Via Google+ - View - LALATE : @LALATE EXCLUSIVE #GretchenRossi Swimwear Line Launching with #Luxe #RHOC http://news.lalate.com/2013... @LALATE EXCLUSIVE #GretchenRossi Swimwear Line Launching with #Luxe #RHOC http://news.lalate.com/2013/03/14/gretchen-rossi-swimwear-line-launching-with-luxe-exclusive/ Gretchen Rossi Swimwear Line Launching with Luxe: EXCLUSIVE LOS ANGELES (LALATE EXCLUSIVE) - A Gretchen Rossi swimwear line with Luxe is being launched as the new season of Real Housewives of Orange County kicks off. Gretchen Rossi's swimwear and bikinis will ... 2 months ago - Via Google+ - View - The Insurance Place, Inc. : The winners of our 2012 Refferal Drawing are Patty G, Deb A, Gretchen G, and Nathan H. They are each ... The winners of our 2012 Refferal Drawing are Patty G, Deb A, Gretchen G, and Nathan H. They are each receiving a $50 gift card for referring someone to us for a free quote! Refer someone to us today and maybe you will be the next winner! 4 months ago - Via HootSuite - View - Bruno Gustavo Silva Passos : Trollaram a Gretchen. #trolling   Trollaram a Gretchen. #trolling   4 months ago - Via Reshared Post - View - peter dochev : Why do some people hate Bulgarians "I've been here four years and no longer take any more!" It says sioda... Why do some people hate Bulgarians "I've been here four years and no longer take any more!" It says sioda  in specialized website amplicate.com / hate / Bulgaria, which explains why he hates Bulgaria and Bulgarians. There is one site where people do not express fascination about our glorious countryside, famous hospitality, diligence, thousands of years of history and beautiful women. "Since I do not speak their stupid dialect and will never do it! Especially hate their witless drivers several times nearly killed me on the road! They, I do not know why, think they are cool, but it is rubbish everywhere. "Other foreigners who have had contact with our homes reality and they do not like it add terrible impressions of the country and our kindness as a whole. Florin Trimuca had posted his reviews: "People are so rude, almost without exception. There is no difference whether you are dealing with educated doctor or someone  caught in the street, rudeness is standard here, and civility is considered a weakness. It is so difficult to communicate with these people without getting nervous breakdown. All are megalomaniacs who know everything better than the others do - "no no no no no, what what, look, this is not ..." A gretchen add: "I've been here a year and no country is so backward as Bulgaria. They do not learn to speak English and have the ugliest alphabet (invented by the way by the Greeks not by Bulgarians), they only talk about their history (strange because it started in 1903 and is full of sad times.) They cannot do anything like people and the funny thing is that they consider themselves charming, but hell, I have never been in such rude stinky country. About their over talking for beautiful Bulgarians women ... Their women pray foreigners to get rid them of Bulgarian men. This country is sad. Please take the example of Turkey and Serbia." The impressions of  User-844i4g:The Balkan pride, or the last word syndrome - inability to listen, insularity, bigotry, interrupting / not leaving you to finish the thought, thinking that they know better, retarded mentality, ”chalga” – honky music, the mongrels – street dogs, holes, loose pavement, catastrophic health system, political corruption, former nomenclatures possessing everything, lack of transparency, fear of any form of competition, resorts controlled by gangsters, bad service, cold food, sucks cappuccino, buying voters, leaky judiciary, passive aggression against foreigners, inferiority complex in abundance, the syndrome/mania/ "Salad Shoppe" ... parking on sidewalks, driving like complete idiots, tripe soup, the drink Boza, racism against Gypsies, patriarchal society and many more reasons too much to fit here! Anakat: "I have noticed that male immigrants from Bulgaria are illiterate and stupid!" See more comments in the site. 6 months ago - Via Google+ - View - Ray Sawhill : Paleo Retiree watches a Gretchen Mol movie. Paleo Retiree watches a Gretchen Mol movie. “An American Affair” Paleo Retiree writes: I bought the DVD of this 2009 movie because Gretchen Mol is in it. It turns out to be a small historical suspense fantasia, set in 1963 in Georgetown, about a teenage boy from...... 7 months ago - Via Google+ - View - Rafaeul Domingues : A Gretchen Evoluio. A Gretchen Evoluio. 11 months ago - Via Google+ - View - Gretchen Rubin : HAPPINESS QUESTION: Do you have a favorite letter of the alphabet. As a "Gretchen," I'm partial to G,... HAPPINESS QUESTION: Do you have a favorite letter of the alphabet. As a "Gretchen," I'm partial to G, and I've always loved Z and E. Am I the only one to have favorite letters? 1 year ago - Via Google+ - View - Dean Alan : And a Gretchen edit to cheer my friend Jeff up. If he doesn't find a house he may need to just live in... And a Gretchen edit to cheer my friend Jeff up. If he doesn't find a house he may need to just live in a little white box like Gretchen does... 1 year ago - Via Google+ - View -