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@RepJackKimble You are retarded for this one, boohoo I work 140 days

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@raphousetv7 Retarded

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@ArtOfMusic_ Typical asshole, entitled ass piece of shit thinks he's special or something. He's LUCKY the second he jumped back there he didn't get smoked

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@POVrips @Target Fucking grown scalper crying like a little ass bitch because you couldn't scalp lmao

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@POVrips @Target What a crybaby pussy lmao you snitch

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@Zigmanfreud @jtatkins They have the footage dummy, what the hell is an interview going to do? Lmao

[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.

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@elbh Either you or your "friend" is a lying bitch

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@NikolaJokiclove I find it hilarious, you probably shouldn't speak for everyone when you don't know shit

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@wyalucid He contributes 100x more than you will but you are just too stupid to see how

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@izamamaa Nobody beat you to death for shit you baby ass victim. There is no "us" it's only you and you are annoying and loud and you make up excuses for your terrible ass behavior

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@Cybertruck0001 @TeslaCharging You are a pussy, learn to follow the rules you idiot

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@rassydp @LandryLocker I got it but yeah I'm glad I wasn't the only one at first going, wtf is this idiot saying?!?!?

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@Lakersaray When they see dancing grown ass retards filming like it's some fucking jungle gym when they just got off a long ass shift and just want to go home in peace, they just want dumbasses to leave

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@BNONews YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP

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@PatsOnYaBack It's saying he's retarded but only just slightly smart enough to know to stay away from shitholes

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@iAnonPatriot You are some unknown queer crying on Twitter about another man

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@NshutiDesi19822 What a load of horse shit lmao

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@CheffyB_ @dallascowboys @blockchain Bye guy with a cowboys pfc

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@hell_line0 Hahahhahahahahaha what a whiny ass baby complaint, go think about what men do outside of your little world and then tell me, why aren't they tired or never in the mood anymore, why is that?