LFJ‼️

Fighting vainly the old ennui. 🇺🇸

[LFJ‼️ @lfjii]

That Ennui may be old, but he puts up a hell of a fight.

[Dusty Slay @dustyslay]

Every flight I’m on these days is “completely full.” Am I just going to the best places? I don’t know what I’m saying here but I just think it’s weird that every flight I’m on is full.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Kids who watch Looney Tunes cartoons turn into better adults.

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

@RaminNasibov

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

Common Roman Empire W

[LFJ‼️ @lfjii]

“What did you do before you retired?”

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

I propose June 6 forever be observed in the U.S. as a holiday from complaining about…anything.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

This motherfucker ran a solid kingdom and I think some acknowledgement of that is overdue. Low crime, clean streets, quality monarch.

[Canes Jerk/Roll Tide/Keep Pounding/Duke🏒🐘🏈 @FFCane32]

Agree

[LFJ‼️ @lfjii]

@mkhammer @RealDeanCain The man is a national treasure

[Judianna @Judianna]

🤬🦇

[LFJ‼️ @lfjii]

But it’s for our own good!

[Washingtons ghost @washghost1]

They’re gonna keep taking this further and further until you just won’t be allowed to drive at all

[LFJ‼️ @lfjii]

Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone were the same guy. Look it up. #usa250

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.

Dear Madam,--

I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln

[LFJ‼️ @lfjii]

BYE

[JayRock @JayRock_QueenCi]

You miss Manhattan?
I’ll help you pack

[Bö Jänke: Hönkÿ @Bob_Janke]

Congratulations on your purchase of a used Cadillac here's your coupon for a free city skyline tattoo

(Chicago, New York and Atlanta only).

[LFJ‼️ @lfjii]

MUST. WIN. BEERSKATE.

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

WHO WANTS A BEER SKATE?!

RT for your chance to win the hottest drinking device in sports.

[LFJ‼️ @lfjii]

@MotorTrend Part of the issue has to be that they teased it for so many years it already felt old when it finally rolled out.

[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.

[LFJ‼️ @lfjii]

@BrianFr11473 I just yelled this at the tv!