“Watching sunsets boost mental health!”
[b]“Watching sunsets boost mental health!”
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This was on Drudge Report. Which tries to include at least one “good news” item a day. As a break from the nonstop reality of Russian War Crimes; lying American politicians; celebrities who just kicked the bucket; crashing stocks/crypto . . .
Sunsets!
Sunset therapy is, of course, the conclusion of a university study. I did NOT go back and check if it's the same university that concluded depression can be banished by
1. Sunlamp use during winter
2. owning a dog
3. smiling at the a$$hole who lives next door
4. prayer to a graven image, or a cloud.
5. taking a walk in the park . . .
I'm sure there still other taxpayer funded studies on how to be happy which I haven't seen yet.
I try to do all the things above. Except smile for the drug dealing homeboys on my block and praying to the god(s) who created them. I might even try to find a webcam featuring sunsets and cast it to my TV. See if it actually works better than the puppy cam or aquarium cam.
These studies NEVER come up with a recommendation like “stop drinking”; “enter drug rehab”; “step back from violent videogames and porn”; “turn the TV off when someone gets raped or burned to death on Game of Thrones.”
I'm actually a big Game of Thrones fan. But probably not for the same reasons as most other people. When you ask why THEY watch, people say stuff like “White Walkers” “Flying Dragons burning a thousand people at once”; and “Daenerys Targaryen nekkid - yeah!”
George RR Martin, the (print) author of Game of Thrones, gave an interview once where he expressed dismay that TV viewers had no clue the whole series was a fictionalized account of European history centuries ago. Perhaps because GOT is actually a zombie apocalypse TV show with a sex crime or murder in every episode. Ratings are coming!
Back to sunsets, and mental health. I honestly don't think sunsets will make that much difference. If this stuff worked, pyschiatrists would prescribe “one sunset before bed, and take the dog for a walk in the morning”. Instead, there is a line 10 cars long at the medical marijuana dispensary for prescription pot.
Having more sex probably makes you less angry and depressed. Provided you're not married to someone you can't stand. INCELS (involuntary celibate men) certainly seem to be consumed by rage against women. Quite a number of them believe women should conscripted as government employed hookers to give them relief without the bother of them being civil to people. Others just want to grope us in bars, and spit on us when we complain. (This really happened to me).
I have nothing against sunsets. Or university studies about them at taxpayer expense.
It's all the OTHER bad news on Drudge every day that's making me depressed.
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This was on Drudge Report. Which tries to include at least one “good news” item a day. As a break from the nonstop reality of Russian War Crimes; lying American politicians; celebrities who just kicked the bucket; crashing stocks/crypto . . .
Sunsets!
Sunset therapy is, of course, the conclusion of a university study. I did NOT go back and check if it's the same university that concluded depression can be banished by
1. Sunlamp use during winter
2. owning a dog
3. smiling at the a$$hole who lives next door
4. prayer to a graven image, or a cloud.
5. taking a walk in the park . . .
I'm sure there still other taxpayer funded studies on how to be happy which I haven't seen yet.
I try to do all the things above. Except smile for the drug dealing homeboys on my block and praying to the god(s) who created them. I might even try to find a webcam featuring sunsets and cast it to my TV. See if it actually works better than the puppy cam or aquarium cam.
These studies NEVER come up with a recommendation like “stop drinking”; “enter drug rehab”; “step back from violent videogames and porn”; “turn the TV off when someone gets raped or burned to death on Game of Thrones.”
I'm actually a big Game of Thrones fan. But probably not for the same reasons as most other people. When you ask why THEY watch, people say stuff like “White Walkers” “Flying Dragons burning a thousand people at once”; and “Daenerys Targaryen nekkid - yeah!”
George RR Martin, the (print) author of Game of Thrones, gave an interview once where he expressed dismay that TV viewers had no clue the whole series was a fictionalized account of European history centuries ago. Perhaps because GOT is actually a zombie apocalypse TV show with a sex crime or murder in every episode. Ratings are coming!
Back to sunsets, and mental health. I honestly don't think sunsets will make that much difference. If this stuff worked, pyschiatrists would prescribe “one sunset before bed, and take the dog for a walk in the morning”. Instead, there is a line 10 cars long at the medical marijuana dispensary for prescription pot.
Having more sex probably makes you less angry and depressed. Provided you're not married to someone you can't stand. INCELS (involuntary celibate men) certainly seem to be consumed by rage against women. Quite a number of them believe women should conscripted as government employed hookers to give them relief without the bother of them being civil to people. Others just want to grope us in bars, and spit on us when we complain. (This really happened to me).
I have nothing against sunsets. Or university studies about them at taxpayer expense.
It's all the OTHER bad news on Drudge every day that's making me depressed.
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