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I Am a Dreamer and a Thinker

People with a highly developed prefrontal cortex ( intelligent people ) are at a higher risk of suffering from depression.
Doesn't it make depression a geek's disease.
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SekaiNoSoul
Generally if you live in society as a normal person and think "too much", you'll get depressed...
nautilusX · 31-35, M
Of course. But how do we know how much is "too much "?
:-)
SekaiNoSoul
There is no such thing, that's why I used " " , giving a hint that common social order is not accepting reasoning individuals. Comfort and status quo is valuable in society, while truth is not. Thus it is best for an intelligent person to become independent from it on a psychological level, to not get dragged into it's stupid games.
nautilusX · 31-35, M
But how can we possibly turn a blind eye to all this negativity around us. For the sake of sanity we are forced to sacrifice sensitivity. : (
SekaiNoSoul
Exactly :(. That's what usually happens, that's what happened to me. The answer is: we need to learn to not take these things seriously. The reason we are hurt by, say, insults, is because we care about what other people say about us, which in turn is caused by our self-importance. So we need to abandon self-importance, or ego, which is no small feat...
nautilusX · 31-35, M
If somehow it was possible to separate emotions and response then maybe we could analyze all our emotions , how we feel and decide on a rational way to respond.
Maybe a superior understand of the world will help accept faults and negativity.
Maybe some kind of neutrality is true peace.
SekaiNoSoul
Losing ego is exactly a method to do so, along maybe with some other tools. If you have no ego, you don't take your moods and emotions too seriously, you still feel them fullly, but are not dragged by them to indulge in them. You can watch them as a separate entity.
nautilusX · 31-35, M
Yeah I agree. Maybe some kind of tough mental practices can destroy the ego.
SekaiNoSoul
I think persistance and repetition more than force is the key. Although, alternatively some intense shock encounter might do the trick, like close-to-death experience or something like that. This seems harder to organize though o-o, not to mention scary and uncomfortable. The second method most likely is close to impossible without some kind of teacher, or random luck.
nautilusX · 31-35, M
I saw a video on YouTube in which a psychiatrist describes how people who have a near death experience seem to evolve to become better humans . Its almost as if their whole mental make begins to change. Maybe there is something in that . Saints and philosophers must go through some such experience.