One conversation can save a life.
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Depression doesn’t care if you’re jacked or lazy as hell.
Bourdain was hitting BJJ mats almost daily in his 50s, staying lean, competing, and grinding nonstop on TV/books. Still died by suicide in 2018.
Exercise helps symptoms, yeah. But depression is a real brain illness: genes, chemistry & trauma. Not some “soft body” failure. The “just move” shaming is bullshit.
Reach out for actual help. #MentalHealthMatters
I am utterly embarrassed by what the mental health field has devolved into. I remember a time where psychiatric diagnoses were something you learned in school. You understood them to be crude descriptors without explanatory value. A way to communicate. To bill insurance companies. We did not discuss diagnoses as if they were discrete medical conditions. They were not something people "had"... like strep throat. In fact, who would want such a crude label to describe them? Now after years of psychiatric propaganda & an alliance w/ the Pharmaceutical establishment people call into my office: "I have ADHD, Depression, OCD, Anxiety". They no longer even describe themselves, or even know themselves. They are just a series of labels. Almost everyone prescribed multiple drugs for those labels. It's a tragedy... that I won't accept. I will go down fight against this nonsense.
I’m a former Assistant Secretary of the VA & Marine Iraq Veteran. @SecVetAffairs - your statement ⬇️ is appalling & beneath the dignity of the office you hold. You should be honoring Alex Pretti’s dedicated service at VA. Yet you are clearly more loyal to Trump than to our fellow veterans. Alex, his grieving family, our nation’s veterans, VA employees, & America deserve so much better than your dishonorable leadership. #NHPolitics
Happiness comes from caring for others and yet we are telling a generation to put that off for as long as possible, to arrange their lives so almost nothing is ever asked of them. But we can’t self-actualise alone. We become ourselves through other people.
A virtual #BeTheOne training session will take place from 2:30-4 p.m. ET this Tuesday, Dec. 2. Learn to identify the signs of a veteran in crisis and then ask the tough questions.
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