Posted by Glenn Fagelson on July 8, 2001, at 0:29:13
In reply to The Path to Minimal Pathology, posted by Andy123 on July 7, 2001, at 10:32:10
> I'm feeling pretty normal lately; I'd like to start a thread about how people who are in fair remission from mental illness feel they got there.
> I read this book several years ago called "The Wisdom of the Ego." It did have some psycho-jargon in it, but the take home message is that people deploy defenses with various degrees of efficacy. The author stipulated that there are two mature defenses: 1. altruism 2. humor. Another idea I wanted to post to this board (and was reminded by the thread about movies:) a psychiatrist that I went to when i was an adolescent told me that he thought that visual media were reponsible for a lot of psychopathology. He was kind of an "out there" type of psychiatrist, but I think he was right. I stopped going to movies and curbed TV watching over the last several years and i think it helps. So there are my 2 cents. Please contribute to this thread :)Dear Andy,
Yes, humor and altruism can be very powerful
weapons against depression, at least I have found
that to be the case; however, both take energy
which is often in short supply when one is
clinically depressed.About movies and TV, I agree; I no longer
watch the news on TV and I have seen my anxiety
levels plummet as a result. I am also very
careful as to what kinds of movies I will watch.Glenn
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