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Old Aug 09, 2009, 07:09 PM
omaradib omaradib is offline
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Thanks Rohag. Interesting. Although, I did not understand what did you try to mean by pointing "three weeks". Kind of depression I had yesterday felt like a depression of years .

Today I have paused my life and taking complete no work rest. It feels better. I am being able to see the parts of my life that was absent, probably long before last three weeks. Last three weeks were just the extremes of them.

Still, it feels like the shock can come back anytime. I am interested in curing the depression. I believe as long as I am not clinically ill, I should try to avoid therapy and medication and try self help. Try to discover the methodology to recover from depression.

One important fact about my depression is that, I can model it in terms of reward punishment system. I am only finding my work to be rewarding. Anything else, socialization, paper-works, home cleaning seems punishing to me. So, I am trying to avoid them. As, they are becoming inevitable and I am trying to avoid them more, I have fall in the depression.

The only way out I can find is to make those painful jobs either rewarding or not dong them more punishing. I would rather reward them. I did not never understand the usefulness or the charm of those activities from the childhood. Today, I am paying for them. I have to get amusement by just living the ordinary part of life.

It probably does not come forcefully. So, I will wait.

I liked bipolar_bear's idea of keeping a priority list for those unpleasant works and switch them with my pleasurable works from time to time. And, then take one or two days of complete rest in the weekend. This will probably temporarily save me for a while.

The open question remains: "How to make mundane jobs pleasurable?"

For many people, that is the life. That is the normal state. So, it can be rephrased as: "Awakening the natural reward system."
Thanks for this!
Rohag