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Originally Posted by eskielover
Great information to share with your GF. It is interesting when we are just doing things that help our mental health without even knowing it.
For me, I now own a little farm & being outside doing work around my farm & before it gets overgrown in the summer I love to walk through my woods & along the streams. Got better exercise when my horse was alive. Moving hay bales, & 50lb sacks of feed sure kept me in shape. Now, just clearing land & chain sawing trees that need removed & mowing even if it is on a lawn tractor is wonderful outside work & for me the outdoors has always been good therapy for me. Lol....mowing is my time for meditation & peace cause nothing distracts me unless I get stuck in fencing ..lol.
Go figure, I went from computer design engineer who played hard games of racquetball at lunch with the guys I worked with to small farm owner who loves country life which really fits my passions & health needs much better. My neighbor raises grass fed cattle & his meat is healthy & delicious & another friend raises goats for meat & until I get my own chicken coop set up, I have friends I get fresh eggs from. The food we eat makes a huge difference in health too, both mental & physical. Lol....never saw this life in my future though I fell in love with farms when I was 8. I can see how much our actual lives to have a great bearing on our mental states & our health in general. We need to be where we are at peace though I loved my engineering career too
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My gf actually majored in psych back in college but now this is working as a marketer. Its good that she has found a job that she likes but she works at a startup. So i dont want to say bad things but startup companies like be little shakey. As you need to be able to pretty much do everything there. That is what my gf as gone through. Because startups are not known to the stable identities there is always a thought of losing the job out of no where. With that, there is always an anxiety of being the best because you can get laid off a lot faster than other companies. The startups are so fast pace and so much responsibilities and peer pressure from the ups. So my gf has switched departments now on the second, maybe a third one if she accepts this one. So im sure this is creating a lot of anxiety for her vs if she had worked at a bigger company. Even though she may have all these big dreams that she wants to achieve, she actually mentioned to me that she has a lot of things thag she wants to do, especially in terms of having a successful career. Its good that the goals are set but i think it is also the reason why depression can happen. The body cant handle the stress that is caused by chasing after those goals.
Then again clinical they see depression into three parts, biological, psychological and social. Biological meaning the actual brain and the chemical balances, even the functions and size of the brain, psychological like ambition, goals, competition with peers and social like being able to let out your heart talk about the deeper thoughts freely without having to hide it and bury deep within.. with all those combination or wrong triggers affects the depression as stated in todays studies