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[CHARLES @PositiveCharles]

@ThrillaRilla369 For my Christopher? I’m going cross-country!

[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.

[BEDROOM MEDIA @BEDROOMMEDIAA]

everytime i watch one of these videos i think that its very important that we learn at least how to do the first step, never know when we actually need it

[CHARLES @PositiveCharles]

@RicFlairNatrBoy Your energy and positivity are always a wonderful source of inspiration!

[The Space Tech Guy @Thespacetechguy]

Nasa’s Hubble space Telescope , these delicates Filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in a neighboring galaxy.

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

27 years later, this scene still hits home. We should all be like Peter.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST NOW: The entirety of US Congress ERUPTS in a standing ovation when King Charles III drops this line

“Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases in 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to CHECKS AND BALANCES."

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇯🇵A Japanese developer built an app that puts a fat cat on your screen and forces you to take a break

Silicon Valley spent billions on wellness platforms, mindfulness subscriptions, and digital detox retreats

A guy in Japan said: fat cat, problem solved

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: A civilization 2,000 light-years away pointing a powerful enough telescope at Earth right now would see the Roman Empire.

They'd see Jesus alive.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Visual for kids to make better understand delayed gratification.

[Red Pill Dispenser @redpilldispensr]

Some extremely profound words of wisdom from Alan Watts.

"One day you'll realize you've already lived through some of the best days of your life and you didn't even know it at the time."

"You were too busy chasing what's next, busy worrying about what's missing. Thinking happiness was something you'd arrive at one day."

"But while you were waiting you were laughing with people who won't always be around. You were making memories in places you'll one day drive past and feel something you can't explain. You were standing in moments that didn't feel like the good old days until they were gone."

"So stop waiting for life to start. You're already living it."

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Oklahoma 2013: Barbara Garcia survived an EF5 tornado that destroyed her home.

While grieving her missing dog during an interview this happened live on camera 🥹

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This guy explains why everything we know about addiction is actually wrong

[📹 Johann Hari | TED]

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

When you strip back physical reality this is what's left.

Energy, Vibration, Frequency, Geometry.

The raw code.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Larry Bird, one of greatest basketball players of all time, reminds us that hard work beats talent, when talent stops working hard.

“My confidence came from shooting for hours and hours by myself.”

[CHARLES @PositiveCharles]

@ThrillaRilla369 Break up with someone you love. Or a family member passes away. Both NOT recommended! But food will no longer interest you.

[Math Files @Math_files]

She said: "Tell me something beautiful"
He told her: (∂ + m) ψ = 0

It's the Dirac equation, and it's the most beautiful in physics.

It states that if two particles interact for some time and then separate, they continue behaving as a single system even if they're light-years apart 😍

[Mateus — eu/acc 🇪🇺 @im_Mateus_]

Alan Watts shares the most profound view on life I've ever heard:

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

As you get older, you realize more and more that true happiness is made up of calm mornings, a clean environment, going to bed early, a safe home, and people who don’t drain your energy…

[Mateus — eu/acc 🇪🇺 @im_Mateus_]

"I wish I hadn't worked so hard."

Dr. Gabor Maté opens up about his biggest life regret:

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

The husband did not compete with his wife, nor did the wife feel the need to beat her husband.
They know marriage is not a business…