Professor_Bussin-Rizz

Honoured rarely

[Professor_Bussin-Rizz @FrizzlePhred]

Good that he didn't resort to alcohol

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

I've seen it at my gym now about once a week and believe it warrants the death penalty
Not really kidding

[Professor_Bussin-Rizz @FrizzlePhred]

@BBCLondonNews Why feces in the street may become just another smell

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

The corporate press is the enemy of the people

[Professor_Bussin-Rizz @FrizzlePhred]

@BrickCenter_ If they want dunks that bad why don't they just lower the rims?

[Toad @LearnToToad]

@DanCrenshawTX Unlike you, inflation is actually relevant and has two i's

[Professor_Bussin-Rizz @FrizzlePhred]

@DanCrenshawTX Its okay, we aleady hate you

[PsychoMath = hoe_math @itispsychomath]

Termites will save this house

Rust will save this car

Cancer will save my grandmother

Brownoids are low-IQ criminals, Sneagro. You've already shown us the best you can do in your own countries.

You're going back and your population will shrink to "curiosity" levels

[Professor_Bussin-Rizz @FrizzlePhred]

@Magicheart143 Pronouns in bio = opinion discarded

[Dr. StormyWaters @NormanDodd_knew]

First it was “just go work at Panda Express” and now it’s “just make a burrito at home”
But really it’s always
“Just shut up and go away, I want to rob and fuck you over without having to listen to your futile loser objections”

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

X being a written medium, the average X user is smarter than the average person

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

CS Lewis on why “dumb blue collar people” usually do not fall for the same terrible ideas that the “educated elite class” so often does:

“Why, you fool, it’s the educated readers who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they’re all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem: we have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the highbrow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.”

– CS Lewis, That Hideous Strength

… Or Romans 1: “Claiming to be wise, they became fools.”

[yakub's top guy @tricknologics]

The illuminati hides hennessey and menthols in the flock cameras

[Logan Hall @loganclarkhall]

The fact that the argument is over the price of burritos instead of the price of bacon cheeseburgers shows the extent of our immigration problem.

[Martyr Made @martyrmade]

No idea what you’re getting at, but to answer your question: yes, if you hear about someone “getting railed by a black man”, and your first thought is to ask for lurid details about the encounter, you are, in fact, a “homo.”

[Klara @klara_sjo]

We are no longer asking "How would you feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?"

[Professor_Bussin-Rizz @FrizzlePhred]

@tylermilliken_ Give Crochet the "rover" role Sale had in '18

[Martyr Made @martyrmade]

Mehdi says this despite every third post of his is laughing at European peoples for being replaced in their homelands. The difference between people like him and the mean ol’ evil neo-Nazis like me and Tucker is that we consider it a tragedy if any people or culture, white or non-white, is displaced. Mehdi agrees with us about non-white peoples, but thinks white peoples losing their countries is funny. Our position is motivated by a genuine love for a diverse world full of different cultures and peoples living out their destinies in their homelands, Mehdi’s is driven by pure racial hatred of whites.

[Jude ⚜️Geaux Tigers⚜️Trahan @wooknponub]

Good morning! Happy Friyay eve!