Anxiety and Depression - A Retreat into a Constricted World

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[@HonorableBeniah-A]

Be thankful president Biden is healing the division Trump caused.

[@TheDrSuperGenius]

You and Jordan Peterson are my favorite channels. Thanks for all the useful and clearly explain ideas you made a difference in my life. Who makes the art you use in the videos you make?

[@FixItStupid]

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[@PalCan]

How long are each of the three parts?

[@AverageJoe369]

Thank you for the clarity

[@davidcoalkey6074]

"Anxiety, furthermore, always involves a reflection upon time, for I cannot be anxious about the present, only about the past or the future; but the past and the future, holding on to each other so tightly that the present vanishes." - Soren Kierkegaard

[@karenweger5284]

Very true.

[@PhilosophyStudio]

Precisely

[@174trek]

Chronophobia

[@AllGood_Thingss]

Wow this is so powerful 🧡

[@zozac7504]

Great quote. So much truth.

[@blurglide]

I have a feeling that much depression and anxiety is due to childhood neglect, particularly emotional neglect. Parenting is now largely outsourced to school, daycare, soccer coaches, etc. The disdain for "homemaking" is one of our society's greatest mistakes.

[@davidsirmons]

Very likely, and parents who haven't learned effective ways to handle anxiety will pass on even worse anxiety sensitivity to their children.

[@blurglide]

@@davidsirmons Yeah- and home video and iPad's have made it particularly easy to ignore your kids.

[@MrAllstar]

Well it’s not a modern dilemma, anxiety and depression have been around since the beginning of mankind, pre modern times were no joke, people suffered horribly.

[@DreamChaserEiRi]

In my opinion we create great role models for our children or let them to outer world as soon as possible. Then child starts his own journey. Not his parents, not his teachers, but his own hard and dangerous self made man journey.

[@klausineliebtpeter]

i was neglected as a kid and as a result of that my teeth are bad and i got a spinal fusion because my parents didnt care enough to fix my back when i was young enough to prevent me from having to get operated. i need to control myself hard as i tend to get panick attacks out of fear that my teeth deteriorate further and i cant afford treatment. its clearly not the real fear of getting ill, its the trauma of my terrible childhood lurking. i still suffer, i get crying fits once or twice a year. it was really bad when i had to give up boxing due to my back. i really, really loved boxing, that broke my heart. it was only important that i get good grades in school, the rest was a thing of "youre not worth making such a fuss". the worst thing was when my little stepsister had the same spine condition as a little kid and my mom made a big deal out of it and had her see doctors and get treatment to "not let her end up like i did". that sentence was one of the reasons i stopped talking to her 15 years ago. i was also used as a bad example to get her "newest" kids to brush their teeth as i didnt brush mine regularly when i was left to look after my self at 4 years old when she left me. she never understood how cruel that was. the best thing ill be able to achieve towards my "mother" is to one day be indifferent about her and what she did to me. it gets better over time, but im still angry at that narcissistic pos. both of my parents were not fit to care for children and it left me quite traumatized.

[@UnschoolingCOM]

"The truth is, you don’t struggle with depression, you struggle with the reality we live in." ~ Keanu Reeves

[@vicanjel]

​@CoherentRamblings But isn't that idea too conciliatory by itself? If one is not suited for his time and place one could do something about it; change the perception of the world, change onself, or change the world. The way I see it, those who achieve at any of those three measures get a momentary lift of the cloud of depression. Plus, I suggest that no one is born suited for their time and place but rather adapt or do not adapt to their time and place given their specific circumstances; adaptation or non-adaptation can be either good or bad depending on (luck?) for those who do not adapt tend to be the ones who prepel change, still having to deal with the risk of failing since not all who prepel change succed at it. Thus depresion, a signal of a failure at adaptation and at propelling change. This would also explain why artists are a group that is generally categorized as depresive, their very nature drives them to propel change and they constantly risk failing at it. Just writing out loud, not sure if correct with my views.

[@vicanjel]

@CoherentRamblings 1) I believe darkness is to be experienced. I get an unease by interacting with overly positive people, they tend to be happier avoiding problems, which is sometimes the ignorant way to go. Naturally if you face darkness you will initially have to be involved in those negative depressive feelings. Therefore my view is that changing our perception is to be recommended when finding ourselves in stagnation, rather than running away from the initial stages of depression/negative emotions. 2) The point is that there are an infinite number of ways for adaptation. But at the same time our psychology tends to be overly-protective of its established order, we do not like chaos and sometimes the change required for ourselves to feel better might mean jumping into a pool of discomfort, fear, and initial suffering. All emotions experienced when drastically changing our lifestyle, job, hobbies, place of residence... I share a same feeling than yours so I agree that the changing ourselves premise of adaptation can come of as shallow. But it is one of the only options we got; I myself would have been more fitter for a quieter, more rural lifestyle, a lonely existence...yet I was brought up in the city and exposed as a child to the many vices of the civilized society (internet, consumption, etc). So I can only adapt to my time and place, maybe even with the goal of one day changing my life to a closer version of the one that could have been. 3) Completely true. That is why innovations are not always good yet culture is filled with innovations and new ideas from those who are desperate to change the world, ideas that sometimes are contradicting and lack sense. Art is a great expression for change but it falls down the same pit, not all art is well received nor conveys the right message. Science also has the same issue, consider Darwin, whose work changed the world both for good and bad, depending where you stand. And yet without art and ideas and science I believe we are doomed, so however scary I believe it is our goal to change the world; small measures are the safest. Thanks very interesting. Your right this could be discussed in the video more in lenght, maybe a future one.

[@madinachingarieva4830]

It’s the way I feel when I’m depressed. In this state I don’t think that something is wrong with my perception of the world, I think that I just got rid of the stupid inebriation that made me enjoy life and care for vain things previously. So, Keanu is talking from the dark place here. The reality probably isn’t either good nor bad. It’s exists only in the eye of a beholder. I think it’s ironic that this phrase was said by the man who taught us about the Matrix.

[@dampcloth]

Who came up with "Ignorance is bliss"?

[@Dunge0n]

And the wretches ruling it that no one has the sack to destroy.

[@sabrisaad8858]

About anxiety I would say "The way you speak to yourself matters".

[@stephenm107]

Internal dialogue is something many overlook and underestimate. Keep it positive on the inside :)

[@sabrisaad8858]

@@stephenm107 I agree with you 💯❤️

[@torchbearer3784]

Very true!

[@snacklepussPSN]

This speaking to oneself is jow Ive kept my shit relatively together whilst my friends all died. My fav internal Mantra is "When I act calm I become calm" Over time this works. My friends all ended up dead succumbing to their own inner turmoils which led to their inevitable self murder via chemicals. Poor bastards.. Its very telling that NONE ever died nor got hurt under my watch. You cannot escape mental illness but you can maintain it, by moderation.

[@remotefaith]

The problem with this, like all psychological platitudes, is that people who are mentally ill cannot change the way they are thinking easily. That’s kind of the whole problem.

[@aaronwebb1548]

"We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares. "But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us." From "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman.

[@chattycathy5003]

Thanks for sharing this. I re-read both of those recently, and will look for the one you quoted from

[@Gay-Icon]

I had a similar thought over the weekend. We're in the era of absolute gluttony and need for gratification. And it reflects in our attitude to sex, material things and even our relationship with food. This is particularly an issue in the West, more so than anywhere else. I'm going to pick up this book and read it thoroughly. Thanks for posting. Very thought provoking.

[@CGMB777]

The turn away from reading is based on gnosis, that uncorrupted truth is within the DNA we are born with and then is compromised by Big Pharma, CDC, WHO.

[@LadyStoneheart312]

Yeah that sounds like our world word for word. Trivial culture, truth drowned in a sea of irrelevance, curiosity being something of a lost art..

[@user-mn2gt4ct3l]

I'll be frank.As an Islamist, seeing the west killing itself seems quite amusing.But we are annoyed by the fact that it refuses to die alone.

[@christinepound5889]

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a PROFOUNDLY SICK SOCIETY". That quote (Jiddu Krishnamurti) explains EXACTLY why good people are depressed and anxious. They should be. The lack of mental health exists in the compliant idiots who are unfortunately in the majority, and are doing their very best to take ALL OF US down with them.

[@Ezio2309]

I wouldn't say so. Yes, depression is basically caused by the society we have created and the people we have become. But no, depression is not a necessary answer to it. You can see the potential of human consciousness and be hopeful and do your best for people to realize this potential.

[@christinepound5889]

@@Ezio2309 Yes. But you have to acknowledge that most of humanity is too far gone.

[@Sabrina_Glenn]

I have the same perspective, and like to believe this is true. I don’t know if I’d call myself a “good” person, but sometimes I feel like I’m in that episode of The Twilight Zone when William Shatner sees the creature on the wing and no one else does. There’s this near constant battle going on in my mind over whether I’m the one disconnect from reality or if almost everyone else is.

[@christinepound5889]

@@Sabrina_Glenn It’s not you who is disconnected from reality. The monster definitely exists.

[@chinuaumano]

Seriously my favorite quote! Its true ~ some of us cannot align with this wicked world and it causes us chronic dis-ease

[@onedayatatime8756]

I'm too depressed to watch or listen to this video right now. Maybe later.

[@AllGood_Thingss]

Awww 💔 I’m sending you lots of love, strength and healing xxxx thinking of you ✨

[@onedayatatime8756]

@@AllGood_Thingss Thanks for being kind. I was just being sarcastic though. Lol

[@AllGood_Thingss]

@@onedayatatime8756 ohhhh whoops sorry 😅, jus wanted to help xxxx

[@onedayatatime8756]

@@AllGood_Thingss It's ok. 😉 😄 I'll try not to be like that in the future. I'm an Aquarius ♒️ though, so i can't make it a promise. Sarcasm is one of our traits.

[@AllGood_Thingss]

@@onedayatatime8756 oh no no don’t change who you are 💗💗 ahaha jus hard to tell through texting haha 🙂

[@18Bees]

Spending time with the honeybees in trees and log hives and talking to them took me out of my anxiety and depression.

[@KerriEverlasting]

Omg their little butts that wiggle when they feed, super cute! I get it 😂💖

[@tombyfield4510]

I’m a beekeeper too but I’m still in pain from a sting to the heart

[@18Bees]

@@KerriEverlasting 🤣🤣🐝

[@quarantinekitchen6909]

I developed anxiety and depression with the pandemic :/ I shake at home alone can nearly eat :/ sleep :/ pray for my ass

[@L.K.48]

@@quarantinekitchen6909 dear god please bestow guidance and health upon Kitchen's ass, amen

[@sebastianfelipe515]

I've heard a lot about magic mushrooms, DMT, LSD but can't find a place to get them, I've got terrible depression and anxiety

[@Marksonfixedmatches]

I'm so interested in the experience but am terrified of having a bad trip

[@odentenzin3129]

I did two grams last time, it was a thrilling experience and I enjoyed it

[@fluffypineapples8852]

(dream.spores ) Got psych's*

[@Marksonfixedmatches]

This whole thing is pretty new to me, can I try 3grams?

[@odentenzin3129]

@@fluffypineapples8852 where to search? Is it IG ??

[@imonymous]

As someone with severe ADHD and anxiety disorders, I'm so glad I opened this video. I think you should indicate the topic of attention somewhere in the thumbnail or title.

[@JoDo777]

There is no such thing as ADHD proof is in my playlists. Wake the puck up.

[@UniMatrix_1]

Same, I think we get pulled harder buy both negative and positive thoughts because our brains are so sporadic that it can find many things to justify how its feeling bit not connect them in a way to ground itself.

[@UniMatrix_1]

@@JoDo777 What makes you say this? I've been dealing with this affliction since I was a small child, I dont think you have read enough scholarly or anecdotal to make that claim.

[@joleaneshmoleane8358]

I’m prescribed drugs for ADHD and anxiety and depression. But I only have anxiety and depression. And I just take the drugs to make me not care as much about how shitty life is. I take the ADHD drugs so that I can get out of bed. Anyone paying attention would have a perfectly good reason to feel anxiety and depression. I only feel the need to take the drugs bc I can’t fake like I’m happy or calm without them. And the people around me expect me to always be happy and calm. I take the drugs for them, so that I can fit in.

[@bbbildhuu]

Same

[@andybrown3016]

Story of my life. I’m 43 now and it’s been an ongoing struggle I have never been able to overcome. I have accepted that anxiety and depression will be my constant companion in this life.

[@barbarabarbera3117]

I used to feel that way but there is great hope in The Lord Jesus Christ, all of this is far more supernatural then physical and mental, I went through horrible times, but through prayer and fasting, I was able to break free of tormenting thoughts and almost a feeling of being walled up in fear and a feeling of bondage to heaviness, I began to really pray in 2008 to overcome this horror in my heart and mind, I am now 55 and it continues to lift away, Jesus Christ is everything you need, through The Power of The Holy Spirit and His Father’s deep love, you will get better because He keeps His Promises because He is Faithful and True, He loves you very much, always remember that, love and prayers always to you ❤️🙏🏻✝️🔥

[@greyinsight]

Im 19, and accepting these negative ways of influence into your psyche will do nothing for you but hinder your potential for a worthwhile existence, don't give up.

[@anangrycat86]

My personal advice for anyone going through depression and or anxiety. Have a healthy diet, bad foods affect your mood, and most important of all, avoid alcohol!!!!!

[@quarantinekitchen6909]

I developed anxiety and depression with the pandemic :/ I shake at home alone can nearly eat :/ sleep :/ pray for my ass

[@James-kd1kp]

Lots of negative mental health and health consequences resulted as a consequence from the government reaction to Covaids such as lockdowns, etc.

[@cheeseburgerinparadise7124]

And pot. Always makes it worse

[@satrah101]

Be better at saying no.

[@WillyEckaslike]

exercise exercise exercise...swim...bicycle ... yoga....walking ...some light weights or bands.....look on here for ..."legs up the wall" and do it while listening to some Gregorian Chant ...u will fell better

[@MJ46.91]

Anxiety and depression are a side effect of life, but a bad and abused childhood amplifies what we're ought to be prepared to face and deal with in our adulthood, and the cancerous abuse I'm talking about is the psychological abuse, the verbal, for the physical heals, but the psychological has the ugliest scars, this channel is a friend and a path away from insanity ❤

[@primalvii]

Well said

[@svenheuseveldt7188]

The cure is doing what you hate most. Facing your fears, doing what you have to do, failing. It's hard and there wont be a perfect ending (that doesn't exist) but we must strive for a better ending. Thats 100% possible, if you atleast try. Think of what you can create if you started trying today and where you'll be in 10 years. People underestimate what they can do over longer periods of time. I myself have been dealing contiously with depression and anxiety for over 5 years now (my motivation goes on and off) and I have made progress, less than i would like to admit but its better than before atleast and i can say I tried. But i have to try harder

[@AllGood_Thingss]

That is exactly right 👏🏼 you said that very well, and that is the hardest part facing your fears 🧡🧡

[@Carandini]

Your 'cure' is bounded in the conceit that you can rectify what's wrong simply by 'keep trying'. It doesn't work that way. You can try and try and try again, and never achieve anything but the shabbiest illusion of what you need. Dreams have an expiration date, and hope can lie to you only so many times before you curse it as nothing but the cruellest of lies. Nothing in haste, that much I agree with, but the vapid assurances that one day the sun will inevitably shine and your misery will end is simply a platitude dispensed by those who have to reassure themselves that is how the world works. It isn't.

[@Dunge0n]

The cure is well-aimed ultraviolence. Like removing a parasite.

[@egrytznr8893]

What you hate most being the things you know you should do, but don't want to do.

[@snuppl512]

That's amazing, I'm happy that you are facing and moving bit by bit.

[@xsazimo]

The timing of this is perfect-- given the state of our society.

[@shrunkensimon]

@@mantistobogganm.d.5504 We've always had strife and struggle, but the key difference now is the pervasiveness and varieties of pollution on the body and mind. In particular electromagnetic pollution, which is barely acknowledged and often seen as 'conspiracy theory', but which has a profound impact on us whilst we are both awake and asleep. All these pollutants compound together into a big mess and often people internalize the negative states of mind as their fault, when in actuality they are just reacting to a really shitty environment!

[@ryanvtec3885]

Anxiety and depression come from a broken society making them do things they down want to do. Similar to passive agressive

[@GVolker1108]

That’s where we are today that’s for sure.

[@20LookInside12]

Today I had to call the crisis line. Today I looked at my shotgun with a dark thought in my mind. Today I slept through sunshine and fair weather. I couldn't even pretend to be High Functioning. The dialogue in my Head was cold and cruel - and I had no Strength to stop it. Thanks for this. Timing is Everything.

[@gybx4094]

You have meaning, value and purpose regardless of what anyone else thinks and you have meaning, value and purpose regardless of what you think. I have put a loaded gun to my head with the hammer back. Something told me to stop. Something told me to put the gun down and engage in the struggle to live. Now, many decades later, I'm so thankful that Something intervened. Life is worth it.

[@hannaissa7201]

I'm going through the same thing right now. And I saw the video this video just release this morning. I feel like it's an endless struggle of an endless cycle. I don't know if I can overcome it I don't know if I care.

[@20LookInside12]

@@gybx4094 It's true, but while crawling through the literal mental/emotional/spiritual Hell that IS Depression - it is SO hard to remember that "This Too Shall Pass" (for a while at least.) I am hoping that the Reprieves, and all the Beauty experienced during them, will help make Life "worth it".

[@20LookInside12]

@@hannaissa7201 Yes, people often envision depression as silently weeping, sad people - which really looks more like anger and irritation - but it is 'feeling' (?) that dead Apathy which is really frightening. That's the Darkest part, I think. I trust you'll bounce back, and trip up and rise above and fall down yet again... like so many of us do. I suppose we must just keep creating, sharing, experiencing, learning and struggling to maintain a reasonable semblance of 'sanity' before we tumble again. Never forget... "It is no measure of Health to be Well Adapted to a Profoundly Sick Society." (Krishnamurti) I think we can agree, those of us bearing the weight of this affliction, are likely of an AUTHENTIC sensitive and empathetic nature - qualities that've pretty much been bastardised and definitions twisted in todays world. Chin Up.

[@lisapop5219]

I agree. I have struggled with depression since I was a kid. I actually have a normally optimistic attitude except when I get depressed. The longer I stay in that position, the harder it is to get back out of it. The longer you can't get out of it the more you just don't care if you get out of it. It is a vicious cycle

[@UnschoolingCOM]

"Thoughts of self-destruction mean that you are trying to “kill off” parts of yourself that have been directed by other people." ~ “Listening to Depression: How Understanding Your Pain Can Heal Your Life” by Lara Honos Webb

[@DreamChaserEiRi]

Thoughts of self destruction mean that you are trying transcend, go beyond the range where only new you can go.

[@fahadhussain66]

Listening to this was quite a reality check after a long day where I got disrespected in front of the whole classroom. The worst part about learning all of this is that depressed or anxious individuals are NOT able to control these patterns of behaviour, body language, or thinking. Some of us are already trying too hard to simply get up in the morning, get to work, and try to conform with society. If only there was a complete cure to this.

[@quarantinekitchen6909]

I developed anxiety and depression with the pandemic :/ I shake at home alone can nearly eat :/ sleep :/ pray for my ass

[@NotEpoch]

I believe the point of this video is that we can change these patterns, with a lot of effort and some time, we can overcome them.

[@antjoes]

Bitcoin fixes this. As the world becomes more and more dependent on Ai and machines the world becomes deflationary (technology is deflationary to currency), gov prints more money to account for this and the prices of things go up and your currency becomes worthless. Only joining the side of deflation things stop going up in value they start to go down. The swift system will change and during this change some governments will want total control over currency. I recommend watching the movie "V for Vendetta".

[@namelessgrace6319]

This is exactly how it feels. I won't take medication for it, tried it in the past, and I've done a lot of research on antidepressants and different psychiatric medications, and those pills are literally poison. And most doctors just want to prescribe them. I think people need intense therapy. And most mental health issues are due to unresolved trauma. I'm going to try Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Marsha Lineham developed this type of therapy, and it's supposed to be really good for issues like this.

[@VileImpin]

"The worst part about learning all of this is that depressed or anxious individuals are NOT able to control these patterns of behaviour, body language, or thinking. Some of us are already trying too hard.." This is the exact negative thinking that reinforces the anxiety and depression. Break the loop. Imagine something better.

[@cynoodles]

Meditation and the expansion of awareness helps significantly

[@ChildofGod98765]

Thank you for this message it gives me hope. I never would have imagined this would happen to me. I want to give up! But I will continue to trust God! Having faith even in my time of deep despair. I lost my job because I refused the vaccine. I refused due to my already failing health. Heart disease and lupus. I’m on a ton of medications already. Including blood thinners. Since losing my job I’ve been struggling to provide for myself and my two children. I’m so overwhelmed because both of my boys are autistic. So they require a lot out of me. My husband passed away three years ago so I’m all alone. I’m so down and depressed. I have been called horrible names and mocked because of my circumstances. This month me and my boys are facing homelessness if I can’t come up with the rest of the rent. Every month is a struggle. But I have so much faith that God will provide for me and my children FAITH OVER FEAR.

[@optinoptimist]

Hope things are going well!!! Please don't let any hate get to you. You are a valuable, worthwhile, human being, regardless of your circumstances. Don't get sucked into the voids of hate and negativity that get projected onto you, that's other people's issues and negativity, you have your own joys and sorrows to attend to. I wish you so much positivity on your journey! good luck!!! and you're never alone!!! thanks for reaching out and allowing yourself to be vulnerable and open to others!! you are seen and appreciated and supported!!!

[@protagonist1358]

Matthew 6. 31-34. Sister, I'm a Believer and will pray for you. The LORD is Good and faithful.

[@SofyanHadod01]

Put your pay pal info in the comments, some might help you out. Keep fighting!

[@optinoptimist]

@little solace life is filled with struggle, just because we are in that struggle doesn't mean we shouldn't try to maintain a relationship with joy, hope, and positivity, it's exactly when we are in that struggle when we need those things the most, don't project your need for her to feel horrible just because everything isn't perfect in her life, she can still have joy and positivity. being negative will only add to her negativity, but i do understand what you're saying and i appreciate your care and concern!!! i hope you're doing well too!!!

[@optinoptimist]

@little solace sorry if anything was confusing, it's not meant to be, i'm sorry that you're upset with what i've said or my personality, but i've done nothing wrong, and being negative to me won't help anyone. i was simply offering support, i'm sorry if it wasn't up to your standards, but i did it exactly how i think is best, sorry if it doesn't jive with your ideas of what is best. like i said, i understand what you're saying, and i see the value in it, but i also have plenty of experience in this area, and plenty of data points to guide my own behavior. i do thank you for your time and effort though, and i agree with your sentiment to a large degree, it has it's place in my own usage as well, but for me this was the time and place to try to be supportive, and so that's what i did. sorry if it bothered you, but i not only chose the words i wanted to choose, i stand by them, but i appreciate your point of view as well!! thanks for trying to stand up for what you think is right!!

[@robertdabob8939]

Looking back I realized at some point I turned rumination into learning logical reasoning and psychology, becoming both a coping mechanism, and escape. Along the way I gained some much needed clarity and confidence, and I thank God for CG Jung.

[@vicanjel]

Not uncommon amongst psychologists. And yes Jung is great!

[@christinasophiapaterno9022]

Robert, I also thank God for CG Jung! I see Jungian concepts in everything and everyone now and I am so happy I have learned of his works. I started on the psychology path in college, but when I saw how down on Jung most psychologists are, I switched to philosophy (and minor in screenwriting). I am still very interested in mainstream psychology, but you’d think they’d at least give him credit for things that they do not.

[@robertdabob8939]

@@christinasophiapaterno9022 mainstream is, generally speaking, a product of, and heavily biased toward, a materialist paradigm that holds a good deal of contempt toward anything with an apparent metaphysical or spiritual consideration. It's classic projection for what we've collectively suppressed in modern culture's material bias. Jung bridges into the spiritual, which at it's core is to acknowledge the importance of and indeed the primacy of, archetypes and the individual's subjective emotional experience. We neglect these things in a bad way, the mainstream even seeking to correct mental illness by seeking to conform people to what is essentially a pathological norm. Expressed as an almost exclusive over identification with the shallow persona at the expense of all the content that make up the individual. Much of it relegated to the shadow and bound up in our complexes, it's triggers, and our fears. If we can't keep that content down not to worry, they have pills for that. Not that pills can't help or that people don't benefit from therapy, it's just not near enough. Self evident in the state of the world, in all it's instabilities and our willingness to still dehumanize others based on primitive group identities, ultimately mirroring in it's collective expression the sorry state of the individual's psychological development.

[@ericwarnock12]

What they fail to mention in this video, in my estimation, is that many people have very good reasons for fear and anxiety. If you grow up in a household where there is either one or two monsters-meaning being abused or neglected by one or both parents, there's a very good reason for fear. Deep, deep fear. Also, your attachment style, meaning to the primary caregiver, usually your mother, could be messed up were she depressed and afraid of things going on in her life. The infant absorbs that fear directly into themselves. Anyway, by and large life's a nightmare. You have a childhood and you're forced to go to school and you spend the rest of your life recovering from both. In my estimation, of course.

[@paununs8719]

Depression is killing me. It takes everything from you, and gives nothing in return but despair. The worst thing is that you are so alone, cause sharing your pain will put people off. It's a labyrinth, if only I could find the minotaur...

[@JoDo777]

depression kills ONLY if you ALLOW it to kill. Wake the heck up and analyze WHAT IS THE "CAUSE" OF YOUR DEPRESSION then figure out the SOLUTION!!!

[@decoy2636]

Shake it off and get moving that's what I forced myself to do. I finally figured others stay as far away from fear it will jump on their back too. Help yourself no one is coming to save you or not in my case just my doctor with a pill for this and a pill for that and you're trapped in the cycle until you cast the pills out and go on your own. Peace and blessings

[@quarantinekitchen6909]

I developed anxiety and depression with the pandemic :/ I shake at home alone can nearly eat :/ sleep :/ pray for my ass

[@paununs8719]

@@quarantinekitchen6909 I will talk to Jesus about your ass, take care man.

[@decoy2636]

@@quarantinekitchen6909 Go in humility and ask the Creator for help and receive the blessings of love with gratitude and a thankful heart. I wish you peace.

[@gybx4094]

Given the unimaginable state of chaos and incivility in our society, I consider it normal for a decent human being to have some level of anxiety and depression. If that anxiety and depression is causing physical distress, insomnia, nausea, and other deleterious effects, then treatment is critical. Humans cannot tolerate anarchy indefinitely. The Laws of Nature will eventually drive humans to create order again. It's just what we are as a species. We must have order again.

[@dampcloth]

I blame misanthropy for my depression and the noise pollution from heavy traffic outside my home for my anxiety. Being in nature is the only thing that soothes me. I wish I can find a way to live in nature.

[@agentsprkle]

there are communities that do it

[@royalecrafts6252]

Nature will tear you apart, humanity is no longer in tune with nature

[@satnamo]

Love is a bridge from here to now because the most precious thing that I can give my beloved is my present since attention is the purest form of generosity.

[@tinasmith1391]

This is a great message and badly needed considering how profoundly sick the world has become. This age will go down in history as the Second Great Depression, unless the oligarchs win. In that case nothing about the way we're living today will be remembered by anyone.

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

Yup. Unfortunately those who need it the most might not find this. For they will remain trapped in the same vicious cycle.

[@DreamChaserEiRi]

I think we are living in gold age and now we are more connected and clever than ever.

[@DreamChaserEiRi]

@@SergioLeonardoCornejo when you live in cycle at least you can know what to expect and can act accordingly to it.

[@peripheralparadox4218]

@@DreamChaserEiRi unfortunately the median IQ of the masses has dropped by 15 points since the 1950’s. We are dumber and fatter than ever before.

[@peripheralparadox4218]

@@DreamChaserEiRi after all many people cannot even define what a woman is anymore.

[@drhapi5308]

For me the hardest part is recognizing my own anxiety and depression.

[@everyman1]

I suffer with generalised anxiety disorder which stems from my relationship with my abusive father. I just want to say thank you for your amazing videos on this topic, they always give me food for thought and even motivate me to take action. I'd also like to recommend a book that changed my life to anyone who's reading this and suffering. It's called 'Way of the Peaceful Warrior' by Dan Millman. It changed my life and I hope it changes yours too. Never give up hope!

[@ItsSimplyAless]

I relate to this too, plus the way my personality is

[@CM_Burns]

6:14 looks like the perfect Bob Ross painting

[@oscarballard7911]

As a sufferer of PTSD anxiety/Depression, I'd concur with most things said. However, it may just be that those who suffer of and for the World are far more in touch with reality than our fun and engaged fellows, who seem to rationalize everything into "It'll be ok." It's not ok, were fucked and someone should tell all those consumers of things, they are the ones caught in a "feedback loop."

[@tomaseriksson5430]

In my day PTSD was something u got on a battlefield

[@LP-kw3kj]

Wow, Catastrophizing everything, and you wonder why you suffer from anxiety

[@satnamo]

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair. The most common form of despair is not being who i am. Do not forget to love my self, !

[@martinwarner1178]

Yes. Then people will tilt towards loving you. Peace to you.

[@jesusguerrero8786]

We must avoid the negative thought spirals that give rise to depression.

[@jhljhl6964]

Thinking alone cannot stop depression.

[@gg6498]

Big desires is also a problem...

[@aworology3027]

For the past six months I've been trying to do just that, for example whenever I have a negative thought these days I immediately stop myself and tell myself something positive instead. I gotta say, it's kinda working for me so far. I have to add too, I've also stopped listening to sad music. I refuse to be a sad miserable person these days.

[@mr.inkwell4782]

i think the depression/ anxiety come from the worry and love i have for the world, like a mother to her child. i wish so much for us to do so good and drive as a species but the selfish, evil, idiotic things we do just have anything crumbing down. yes i do have hope, but it comes short handed to the dangers imagining or not.i want to leave this world, but at the same time, i don't. its such a conflict for my mind.

[@joleaneshmoleane8358]

I’m prescribed drugs for ADHD and anxiety and depression. But I only have anxiety and depression. And I just take the drugs to make me not care as much about how shitty life is. I take the ADHD drugs so that I can get out of bed. Anyone paying attention would have a perfectly good reason to feel anxiety and depression. We have almost no control over our lives. I only feel the need to take the drugs bc I can’t fake like I’m happy or calm all the time like everyone else can. I guess they’re “well adjusted”. 🤷‍♂️ And the people around me expect me to always be happy and calm. I take the drugs for them, so that I can fit in. I’ve tried to not pay attention to reality and pretend everything is fine. I’ve tried many times and I’m sure I’ll try again. But it never works for more than a day or two. Other people just won’t leave me alone. Especially our governmental institutions and our media, even entertainment. They always want more from me. More money, more action, always trying to tell me what I should be doing or thinking. Always making me feel like a bad person with bad thoughts if I don’t agree with whatever insane ideology they’re pushing on me today. I find those truths about our reality impossible to ignore.

[@MrFlyingPanda]

The world is shit.. But if I watch a sunny beach with kids playing or a mountain lake with a couple canoeing, the world is now potentially a paradise? That makes no sense..

[@LP-kw3kj]

how does it not make sense?, what you focus on, listen to, and do determines your perspective in life, if you neurotically look at only the negative then you will develop a pessimistic view of the world.

[@MrFlyingPanda]

@@LP-kw3kj so it s all in your head?

[@squidlygirl4570]

I needed to hear this today.

[@aperson2730]

0:23 Where we direct our attention is a profoundly moral act Brilliant

[@imakrewitatl]

My depression has always been because of existential reasons. It cant be fixed with prescription drugs. And i dont think its possible to escape

[@fahadhussain66]

Exactly the case for many others. Used religion as a cope, but it fell apart.

[@imakrewitatl]

@@fahadhussain66 Im both pitiful and envious of religious folk. Sometimes i feel it would be nice to believe in something so hard it could cure my mental health

[@negaraaa]

@@imakrewitatl same here. it would be much easier to just believe in a higher power but I don't and I cant.

[@statisticalcomputing]

@@imakrewitatl true faith is only possible in the presence of doubt. sounds like you're already on the path that many wouldn't even question. take solace in that. meaning is something we determine for ourselves. keep looking, brother.

[@imakrewitatl]

@@statisticalcomputing I feel like absolute faith only comes when you’ve finally given up all rational thought. Not intentionally of course. Again, i get why people grasp to those things

[@aaronbarrettsvisualdiary3600]

Human lives are dictated by our environment, social economic class, race and genetic make up and other factors beyond our control and anxiety and depression is the realisation of this existential truth. I cannot change the past of how I was raised in a fundamental christian cult by hypocritical narcissist parents, nor forget the years of abuse and racial discrimination as an indigenous minority of new zealand or how poor my family was growing up in a large household. My past has shaped the way I view life and making a living and there is no help, or reasoning thats freely available and adequately advised to give to those like me stuck in a wormhole of dispair. Without an egotistical mindset of ambitious desire to consume and explore it is impossible to psychologically move ahead or see any hope to the pointlessness of our useless existence. We all die one day so 1 why not make it quick and end it all now OR 2 live it out and try to learn and see as much as you can for as long as you can and prolong death as long as possible. Theres no other logic behind life, im living day by day and watching how humans act towards each other and it makes me want to leave this world for good.

[@Fotini.s]

" Without an egotistical mindset of ambitious desire to consume and explore it is impossible to psychologically move ahead or see any hope to the pointlessness of our useless existence " Well said

[@Metamorph2]

Yeah...What's the point in living in the first place? I think that depression is just a symptom of a greater problem that we shut down with all of the stigma and demonizations of it...That we don't really care about *why* we live anymore, about what makes life worth living.

[@thehatman3089]

O Allah (The One God), I seek refuge with You from anxiety, and sorrow, and weakness, and laziness, and miserliness, and cowardice, and the burden of debts and from being overpowered by men.

[@captainkielbasa5471]

Attention is the most valuable resource to man

[@YourMomXD1337]

Dont get distracted

[@Bhodisatvas]

You become what you think about the most.

[@felixk5801]

So true for me, luckily i am getting better. My best decision was to quit smoking. Addiction really gets you into these repetetive thought patterns

[@atruceforbruce5388]

Thank you. This resonates to my core, and describes me so well Ever since my children were kidnapped I lost faith in myself and humanity. I hide away, in a state I can only call a living death. I'm trying to get out, but all attempts feel in vain...

[@vicanjel]

That is really tough. It is difficult for me with just having regular problems to look at the light in the dark and I cannot imagine how it is for you. I hope you can, step by step, however little, find light. I assure you whatever light you might find will be worth a thousand darknesses.

[@rawhoneyjar]

Thank you, God bless.

[@infinitive7654]

It's great to see you getting back into individuality and personal responsibility. Thanks for all that you do, AoI!

[@enriqueenriqueziii5564]

I'm so glad that you posted this video because this is something that I'm dealing with today, even before the covid pandemic. For years since I was a kid, I always had trouble socializing with people around my age because I was afraid that I was going to be bullied or get criticized by them. Yes I had a few friends in my life but I got to that point where I isolated myself from people. Most of the time, my parents ask me if I want to go out and I always say no because there's always a lot of large crowds and babies/toddlers crying extremely loud in public places and I don't like that at all, and that mostly gives me anxiety. I stay home a lot because of that.

[@johnogden5051]

Your videos keep me alive thank you

[@anonymousperson4943]

Everything that you said in this video stands true if I remember my battle with depression 5 years ago...

[@diamondheart11]

I really really needed this today, thank you so much!

[@daliakrinsky4895]

Thanks 😊

[@Bambagustrust]

I could listen to you for hours. Days weeks no problem. 💪🏻 loving your work.

[@liborrajm2916]

Once again, many thanks for these very useful and important videos!

[@Basketofcups]

I look forward to your good work, thank you

[@veronicaeugenia2231]

Wow! How intimate, personal and useful this exploration is. Thank you truly!

[@bmanagement4657]

I have severe depression and anxiety brought on by corrupted violent authority behind every closed door. I am not mentally ill, but I live in a doomed, mentally ill society which makes me feel severely insecure. Cure society of its apathy and violence and my depression, anxiety, rage, and sadness will disappear. I am aware, therefore I have depression and anxiety.

[@us-bw6hg]

Nah, it's not society, it's just a you problem.

[@unusuallyordinary]

@@us-bw6hg It sounds like *you* have some issues with gaslighting. You might want to work on that. 🤨

[@Gay-Icon]

@@us-bw6hg no it's definitely society. I'd love to be in that sand pit you're sticking your head in, though.

[@letang6772]

A good illustration is the medication of children for ADHD because they cannot sit still at school and are fed a diet lacking in nutrition.

[@unusuallyordinary]

@@letang6772 Yes, just put them on a proper diet and force them to sit within an oversized box and expect them to absorb a constant flow of information for eight hours per day, five days per week, and have them do "homework" on top of that. There is no escape for them, even at home. The Prussian mimicry/indoctrination system is flawed in many ways and leads to childhood depression, anxiety, suicides and mental unwellness in general.

[@fraidoonw]

thanks!

[@hawkcobo]

I’m skeptical of joy and suspicious of hope. Big promises have big letdowns. While I’m able now to at lest purse joy I have to be very intentional. It’s not something that comes natural. Videos like this always help make me more aware of myself and also how others must feel the same way too. I’m not alone, and I will let that simple thought bring me a slice of that elusive joy. Thank you.

[@patriksiwik8141]

Keep going brother!!

[@fademasterfade227]

Thanks, these videos are great!

[@Sam-jh9yw]

Another fantastic video. Thank you

[@zachparade2791]

Thank you for sharing this video for free. It is helpful. I’m glad at least some people will get to see other videos in the series. ✌️

[@IncoherentClam]

Love the videos bro. I'm becoming quite a force to be reckoned with I owe it to myself. Your videos help me so much. Anxiety can be harnessed and turned into the school of greatness. I don't stare into the dark anymore I look with numerous points of view at the good, while staying attentive to what can improved upon. 29 yrs old and I can finally say I'm a man. Man makes the thoughts, not thoughts make the man. Push on friends life gets better the more you get to know yourself. I still have my weak moments, but farmore insight on how to improve upon my present 💝

[@thescaleofnature5775]

Thank you. I listened to all of the videos in this series, and the messages are exactly what I needed to hear right now. I greatly appreciate your content, and I look forward to new videos.

[@Mosquito-balls]

Without this chanel imagine the mental Bondage we would have without all this Liberating knowledge and insight

[@Xyz46786]

Beautifully touching

[@danielwatcherofthelord1823]

This was brilliant. I've never heard anxiety and depression explained this way. Also, very hopeful

[@studybuddy4971]

That was insightful. Thank you ❤️

[@rainermaelger4726]

Danke !!!!!!

[@Mr1998Brandonify]

Great video. I suspect many people who suffer from insomnia, in reality are dealing with their mind presenting a variety of problems they’ve been ignoring. At bedtime, your attention isn’t taken so now you have problems to solve. If I’m daft, folks began dealing with the smallest problem to their next largest in succession, they would find their uneasiness lift. It helped me. Once life became routine, predictable and more or less boring having my life in order, it’s been fantastic. My bandwidth for problem solving is expanded.

[@Jakobvielsted]

Another great video from Academy of ideas… keep it up, you’r Channel is one of the best on KZbin on theese subjects 🙏🏾❤️

[@gregdeas8783]

Positivity at all costs leads to a kind of blindness and teaches children how to be conformist,whereas constant negativity leads to a sick paranoid victim,also blind. Cultivating a life that strives to see reality as it is seems to be the missing link.

[@31Daca]

Well that hit the nail on the head with how I feel

[@behailumulugeta5062]

i always get Something always from this channel ❤

[@aperson2730]

Excellent

[@quarantinekitchen6909]

I developed anxiety and depression with the pandemic :/ I shake at home alone can nearly eat :/ sleep :/ pray for my ass

[@rawfoodphilosophy7061]

The next pandemic will be ten times worse oh, so try and see the bright side of how

[@squidlygirl4570]

I will. Pray for mine too. My mental health has dwindled from the tyrannical measures and gaslighting attempts.

[@WillyEckaslike]

exercise will save you....at least an hour a day and eat healthy and drink water

[@flypinkswimmeltedkat4469]

Great video and new perspective

[@alicemiriah]

I love this channel

[@ericruiz4404]

Oh my, how this video spoke of me so accurately. Depression and Anxiety have lessened as I’ve learned triggers, exercises, and adopted healthy mental attitudes - but still lurks it’s head at times! Where is the last installment to this video?!

[@TheReaper569]

Still the best youtube channel that i am glad to find.

[@KeyofDavid5778]

I just found it today and I'm very happy this seems like a very informative down to earth Channel

[@henrychinaski716]

7 : 41 Susan Sontag, with respect. Another great video, thank you, AoI.

[@Curious859]

As a person with depression and anxiety I must say that logically I understand and accept everything in this video but IMHO logic has nothing to do with it. Anxiety and depression is the body and mind’s way of reacting to past traumas, the state of the world and the state of our living situation. Aside from childhood or past/present traumas, we’re not built to live in this type of Society. I don’t believe anyone suffered from these ailments in the past where it took a village to raise a child, meaning everyone in the community helped to raise the young, people were connected, lived a simple life, etc. The system is a sick system and a sick system doesn’t generate health. It thrives on the sick. We’re disconnected from nature, trapped in prisons we call the modern world. Maybe the despair is our mind telling us to change; not the focus of attention but the way we live. Maybe it’s telling us the world is sick and we need to build a better one.

[@patrickpoulsen1]

Ding ding ding, you hit the JACKPOT! You will live in the pod, you will eat the insects, you will conform, you will own nothing and be happy!

[@dampcloth]

But how do you build a better world? Creation needs destruction, doesn't it? Maybe people like you and I need to own up to our values and destroy the society we despise. I'm not sure if I'm either too much of a coward or not smart enough to figure out a viable way to change society. What is stopping you? Or maybe the reality is that attempting concrete change is futile and the only thing we can hope for is something like a great flood of biblical proportions.

[@dampcloth]

I think people got depression and anxiety in the past, but it was for clearly defined reasons: the death of a close one, invaders wanting to steal your land and kill you, being enslaved...

[@VisiblyJacked]

I agree that it is in the body, and I get the most relief through being good to the body through good nutrition, sunlight, yoga, etc. I haven't found victory but life can be worth living when these things are optimised.

[@jojostalino1377]

My attention is my soul. That's why I train it with cold shower every morning, daily exercice and boxing 3 times a week. Plus prayer to god after 23h00 and a good sleep always. Don't eat sugar, don't use social media (You won't lose any social interaction), drink coffee, practice meditation and/or breathing exercice. You wanna increase the amount of stress you can tolerate to face dumb society and stay grounded. Stay HARD MY FELLOW. GOD BLESS YOU

[@user-gz4ve8mw9l]

Ditch the coffee, drink water exclusively.

[@dampcloth]

KZbin is social media.

[@ancestorsleaves]

Great video! Very informative and valuable information.

[@TomoyoTatar]

My trigger is being attacked violently in my youth multiple times and my brother being murdered last year; as well as myself almost being murdered. There were gunshots outside yesterday. Wouldnt you be anxious? I tried to get therapy, they can't help because they are too absorbed in their selfish lives and career. I haven't been one of those people who tried to refused taking steps due to perspective of "why bother", nor have I refused the pharmaceutical route. In fact I've tried multiple times in the past few months. I've been faced with therapists who just don't give a fuck. 🙂👍 While this video portrays the individual mind of the depressed and anxious as someone without enough so called motivation and the banality of life. While the words are illustrious they fail to accurately take into account the true depth of the problems we face today. The serious lack of morality and cognizance based on the providers life history who for the most part I've gathered are now young people who have just gone through the motions of memorizing definitions and taking exams so that they can earn a living wage. They are much more concerned with their paycheck than helping you. The clinical aspect is all but a ruse to control one's psyche effectively retraumatizing them repeatedly in the hopes of maintaining an income.

[@shadowforger2035]

You have to get out of the hood. You have look normal people that have never lived in war zone like Children. You have to forgive them for having no idea meaning of pain. If you don't just more bitter. You must stop sentimentle about the past. It does not help to wake up early in the morning dwelling on something terrible that happened or something you saw. I share your pain and there are many of us that are not psychopaths but we had to live with them on the street. So just to survive we had to have a touch of the devil ourselves. Take care of someone or animals weaker than yourself. That's how you feel better. We can not save anybody lucky to save yourself. Hard to get away from the hood but you have to do it. Have to learn to live with gentle normal people and it will heal you.

[@0oo00]

You are insighful. Hang tough.

[@somethingyousaid5059]

You have insight that comes from your own personal experience and thus it's insight that no one else has. Even so, you can't be any the better for having that insight. It's set up that way and it sucks.

[@TomoyoTatar]

@Inrivaallagofornow No it's not really ironic. I have lived in horrible places all my life. I've been homeless twice. I was attacked by family members and non family members all my life. When I was younger I was raped. That doesn't exscuse my bitterness and cynicism, true, but considering you know nothing about me, or who I am except for what I've stated here, it's a bit much for you to assume I'm a violent psychopath. I've never even so much as hit back as much as defended myself from a person attacking me. Yes, I was bitter, yes I complained and vented a bit. At least I know who I am and got over, or still am getting over by properly coping with what life gave me, and what life has given me was a very hard road. It's a lot more than I can say for many of those recently graduated 20 year olds in the psychological field who just tell me, "you just have to do breathing exercises, put on a happy face and smile". They truly are privileged and could learn from someone with more experiences in life. I wish I could move out of the hood, unfortunately with poverty it just isn't that easy is it? I don't have anyone helping me, in fact I'm helping two elderly parents as it is, and I'm not asking for help OR pity. I can handle it. I can cope. That's more than some other people can do. Some people just sit there and give up saying, "poor me, I'm going to give up because I just can't handle this, or it's too hard". It is hard. Life is hard, it's not a fairy tale.

[@TomoyoTatar]

@@somethingyousaid5059 you're right! I try my best to see both sides most times though.

[@blaizewood1871]

Highly regarded channel. More like this!!

[@blaizewood1871]

Bravo!

[@TempleGuitars]

The difference between looking and staring was discussed by Susan Sontag, not Susan Sontang. I couldn't agree less with this video. "It Is No Measure of Health to be Well-Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society".

[@huguettebourgeois6366]

Very simplistic, black and white versions of ways people see the world and live in it. You should study Art!

[@laraparks7018]

Some people were just tortured by so many undiagnosed mentally ill psychopaths they became anxious and depressed A manifested feed loop

[@Terraceview]

Far from what many believe; anxiety and depression are not always directly connected to material comfort, but can be the cause from several outside influences.

[@stephenm107]

like an oppressive system run by corrupt billionaires.

[@LP-kw3kj]

sounds like a classic victim mentality, expecting the world to give to you, you need to seek value on your own, instead of ruminating in depression and mental illness

[@MoonBurn13]

Well…Definitely great pictures in this series.

[@MrBigtime1986]

This was a good lesson.

[@noahjester8471]

I find that my anxiety is like a constant loop-de-loop of mistakes made, lesson learned, overcome the despair of mistakes, forget the lesson, and repeat the same mistake. It never ends, and I only have myself to blame for it.

[@ellenwalker4377]

hm, easy for you to say, mr. ideas. i'm glad you're a channel i like!

[@snacklepussPSN]

PEOPLE SHOULD BE AWARE OF WHERE THERE EMOTIONS ARE STORED IN THEIR BODIES. This allows the sufferer to address their emotions one step at a time.

[@rossgopicotrain4042]

small note of correction: the embedded quote within this video attributed to the writer Susan Sontag has the surname spelled incorrectly (i.e., Sontang). RGB-Y2 out!!

[@somethingyousaid5059]

It may be the case that there are many possible worlds for me. Even so, it also may be the case that all of them are bad.

[@0oo00]

That works as a physics joke!