Probably the wisest advices I've ever had are various forms of the "Everything starts with the first step". A step is of course physical movement as well, and the advice given (It's a rare person who has never heard this, I'd wager) is *nearly* always linked to "Get out of the depressed funk and start doing SOMETHING"... which can be seen as the simplest form of exercise.
MOVE!
Sometimes our language itself is wiser than the 'wise people' in the certain field.
Of course, I had no choice in what I just wrote, my genes made me do it, and I had no choice in the choice of words - even when I erased and replaced some while evolving the comment. Those damned genes are really complex in their control!
Exercise. Move. Act. Take choices - part of depression is being overwhelmed for a period, as someone said in the past few decades "Depression is largely caused by carrying too heavy a burden for too long". The mind-body shuts down as an active participant in the environ.
Exercise - movement, activity - puts the local Self back in the seat. No longer passive, but active. (And then we wonder why imprisoning, drugging and Institutionalising such people isn't exactly working out for the best in most cases).
On the binary logic of computing, ran across a quite short video on the Soviets 'Trinary' computer they invented during the cold war. (The first half goes into explaining the concept itself, but over half of the video is exploring why it was shelved due to internal Soviet bureaucratic infighting, not so interesting.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vwOJE0Dq38
Although I've read a few articles on 'quantum computing', in no way could I explain it either, although there's an impulse to assume those particular technological magicians do know what they are doing, lol!
Trinary would seem to fall closer to those 50s-60s-70s Information Science pioneers, with the potential to add "Mu" ("maybe") to Aristotlean two state logic.
It's a fascinating field, but far beyond my capabilities to follow except in natural language.
My genes could make me feel depressed about that failure. :)
I don't know how many times I said to people: "Get up, get active, get involved. Don't just sit there staring at the wall reliving all that bad stuff." Many years ago at a big teaching hospital, we used to take people to the beach, that transformed them.
The Health Report on Radio National carried a piece about research by the Black dog institute into risk factors that may precede mental illness in adolescents
Probably the wisest advices I've ever had are various forms of the "Everything starts with the first step". A step is of course physical movement as well, and the advice given (It's a rare person who has never heard this, I'd wager) is *nearly* always linked to "Get out of the depressed funk and start doing SOMETHING"... which can be seen as the simplest form of exercise.
MOVE!
Sometimes our language itself is wiser than the 'wise people' in the certain field.
Of course, I had no choice in what I just wrote, my genes made me do it, and I had no choice in the choice of words - even when I erased and replaced some while evolving the comment. Those damned genes are really complex in their control!
Exercise. Move. Act. Take choices - part of depression is being overwhelmed for a period, as someone said in the past few decades "Depression is largely caused by carrying too heavy a burden for too long". The mind-body shuts down as an active participant in the environ.
Exercise - movement, activity - puts the local Self back in the seat. No longer passive, but active. (And then we wonder why imprisoning, drugging and Institutionalising such people isn't exactly working out for the best in most cases).
On the binary logic of computing, ran across a quite short video on the Soviets 'Trinary' computer they invented during the cold war. (The first half goes into explaining the concept itself, but over half of the video is exploring why it was shelved due to internal Soviet bureaucratic infighting, not so interesting.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vwOJE0Dq38
Although I've read a few articles on 'quantum computing', in no way could I explain it either, although there's an impulse to assume those particular technological magicians do know what they are doing, lol!
Trinary would seem to fall closer to those 50s-60s-70s Information Science pioneers, with the potential to add "Mu" ("maybe") to Aristotlean two state logic.
It's a fascinating field, but far beyond my capabilities to follow except in natural language.
My genes could make me feel depressed about that failure. :)
I don't know how many times I said to people: "Get up, get active, get involved. Don't just sit there staring at the wall reliving all that bad stuff." Many years ago at a big teaching hospital, we used to take people to the beach, that transformed them.
The Health Report on Radio National carried a piece about research by the Black dog institute into risk factors that may precede mental illness in adolescents
https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/future-proofing-study-research-insights-summary-2026.pdf
Does this represent tacit acknowledgement of the role of processes of mind in the course of mental illness or recovery from trauma!?
Ian Hickey's book :
https://www.amazon.com/Devil-You-Knew-Ian-Hickie/dp/1761042742
is heavy on rhetoric and light on data. Anecdotes and motherhood statements hardly cut it
Only two pages of references. No landmark studies. No mention of exercise that I can recall
Will look into it. I really can't face the idea of reading an entire book by Bro. Hickie.
This is fascinating.
The idea that psychiatry avoids the “mind” because it can’t measure it feels less like science—and more like fear of losing control.
Maybe what we call disorder isn’t just chemical imbalance, but a fracture in how we process reality itself.
The craic in everything! Yes, that’s how the light gets in.
I’ve just committed to reading some of Niall McLarens work. Great caic, no doubt, despite the misspellings.
Oh dear, which misspellings?
Maybe it's just on my browser, but the links in the article don't open correctly.
Will check.
The concept of free will is vitally important in decision-making about whether someone is guilty or not guilty before the courts.
If the person did not act out of their free will, they were mentally ill and therefore not guilty.
Absolutely. It is fundamental to our concept of civilisation.