Posted on 06/17/2012 9:42:41 AM PDT by thecodont
IN what way do you spend your time online? Do you check your e-mail compulsively? Watch lots of videos? Switch frequently among multiple Internet applications — from games to file downloads to chat rooms? Enlarge This Image
Brian Cronin We believe that your pattern of Internet use says something about you. Specifically, our research suggests it can offer clues to your mental well-being.
In a study to be published in a forthcoming issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, we and our colleagues found that students who showed signs of depression tended to use the Internet differently from those who showed no symptoms of depression.
In February of last year, we recruited 216 undergraduate volunteers at Missouri University of Science and Technology. First, we had the participants fill out a version of a questionnaire called the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, which is widely used for measuring depression levels in the general population. The survey revealed that 30 percent of the participants met the criteria for depressive symptoms. (This was in line with national estimates that 10 to 40 percent of college students at some point experience such symptoms.)
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For those who would like a shortcut. This will explain everything.
Sounded to me like he was just 'pulling your leg'.
Imagine all those mulling throngs of people who go around thinking they are happy, just because they don't know they are depressed. Oh... the humanity.
That's like explaining obesity by stating that the stomach has acids that digest what we ingest.
The 'issue' is 'what' causes these complex interactions and/or imbalances.
You're right, if this keeps just one person from feeling happy when they really aren't, it's worth it!
Hahahahaha...THAT was funny! Thanks for posting it!
Don't let this secret out, but depression is a physical condition, and is what generates the mental condition.
We treat it medically (medicinally), but, like most of our MEDICAL problems, we treat the symptoms, and not the cause.
Yes, there are some whose brains aren't wired right, and in their case, medicines are sometimes the only relief.
I suspect that some who are 'clinically' depressed, are not, and some who are not diagnosed that way, are.
I'm not sure we (current medicinal/psychiatric practice in the US) are that good at diagnosing that precisely.
I agre. We have enough “Nannystateism !”
I used to suffer from severe depression. Thoughts of suicide, tried it once (seriously) as a teenager.
Now? Sometimes for a day or an hour, or even a couple of weeks at the most, (but nothing as severe as before) but I know what to do about it.
The “drug solution” is not the real cure; some psychoactive drugs may help a person for a short while - none are meant to be lifelong anyway - until the person can figure out what is wrong with their life choices, or begins to realize that emotions can be controlled, tamed and ultimately changed. The mind does not have to be one’s master.
And some people are by nature more dour and some more jolly. It’s the way the world is. Just like some people have a gimpy leg and some don’t. Some have more prone to anger, or lust, or greed, or are more critical of others, more impatient, more feelings of hopeless, or cheer, rosy colored glasses, etc.
Life is meant for education - to learn lessons, and popping pills to numb what we are experiencing is not the solution.
The person is not the brain, the brain changes with use and what we focus on; the brain is not the engine. The soul is the engine.
Yeah, I was wondering if we should start up a foundation to find a cure.
Is everything a “medical condition”? I was arguing the other day with someone who insisted that drug addiction is an illness just like any bacterial or viral illness.
Read my comment above. Not everything is fixable with pharmaceutical drugs. Free will is amazing stuff. Choices have consequences. Not everyone is born the same, either physically, mentally or emotionally.
Don't let this secret out, but depression is a physical condition
A difference without a distinction.
We treat it medically (medicinally), but, like most of our MEDICAL problems, we treat the symptoms, and not the cause.
From what I have seen, it is a multidisciplinary approach. But if you have a way to deal with physical problems other than with medical (psychology is considered medical) science, let's hear it.
I'm not sure we (current medicinal/psychiatric practice in the US) are that good at diagnosing that precisely.
I am honest when I ask: where do they do it better?
Should have added you to my comment above.
With the exception that some will misunderstand labels like 'mind', 'brain', and 'soul', you are precisely correct.
>>Is everything a “medical condition”? <<
No, certainly not. But there are some real medical conditions that require real medical solutions.
I agree it is too bad that Rx is the quick go-to for almost everything and the left has grabbed onto EVERYTHING as a disorder (thus freeing everyone from personal responsibility, their end-game).
But there are a lot of conditions which are purely medical.
It always bothers me that people just say “just pull yourself up by your bootstraps!” when they have not the training to say one way or the other.
Yes indeed, the terms do need to be defined...Maybe I’ll do it in a bit! That would engender some discussion, no doubt. Plus “intelligence”.
I didn’t say anything about bootstraps. I am discussing taking personal responsibility for one’s health, whether physical or mental/emotional; and part of that personal responsiblity can include not only making changes in ones’ life, but seeking appropriate help.
I was treated long ago with psychoactive drugs and I know from personal experience they did much harm and no good whatsoever. ymmv.
The brain is not the seat of consciousness, the brain is a tool and there are many workarounds, and ways to train the brain.
I got the joke Blam.
Most of your posts appear to relate to the impending end of civilization as we know it. That can be kind of depressing.
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