No in the other thread it was about both. Finding purpose and meaning in life even if in the smallest things like feeding your dogs. But also about finding meaning in depression, in suffering.
Sister Rags summed the whole thing up best....
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There is a saying about Buddhism...that the Buddha's purpose was "to learn to come joyfully into suffering".
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I cried when I read that and I have not cried in a long time.
http://forums.psychcentral.com/depre...g-meaning.html
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." -- Richard Feynman
Major Depressive Disorder
Anxiety Disorder with some paranoid delusions thrown in for fun.
Recovering Alcoholic and Addict
Possibly on low end of bi polar spectrum...trying to decide.
Male, 50
Fetzima 80mg
Lamictal 100mg
Remeron 30mg for sleep
Klonopin .5mg twice a day, cutting this back
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