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Ponder
12-22-2013, 04:38 AM
Searching for some local mental health services - I came across this:
http://www.westernhealing.com.au/anxiety.html

I think Western Healing is like a condition in itself - however whilst reading on the wide array of identities so many of us are seemingly playing into with such western doctoring - I found the break down of Existential Anxiety quite fascinating. Both from the religion and worshiping concepts man often finds itself drawn to but also in the Rationalisation so many of us need to do - it's like going from one extreme to the other - interesting.

More so in the context I've been reading of Echkart Tolle - a different approach to mindfulness, however it does highlight a little on Existentialism and some of the minds Need to Philosophize and intellectualize.

Anyways - there is some more break downs on whatever you'd like to identify with. Me, I have been told to stick with dealing with symptoms - NOT labeling myself as half assed doctor would make of me.

None the less, here I am - victim to the mind banging on wall, trying to make sense of the madness others claim to be the only way; lest it be some kind of illness that the doc can fix for a fair PRICE! Try not to look over the claims, thinking YEA, I have that too! Who am I to say - I'm no one, but I'm going to say it anyway - given so many people here ask for advice - that's mine -

A little bit here and a little bit there - such and such said LOL @ that one! It's always such and such said - Smart cookie that one - no sense in worshiping it though and making it law - bang go the intellects with reason , right and wrong - Hmmmm comes now the Zen practice that sits where - in all this Existentialism? Perhaps a PHD required to become Dr Know - Dime a dozen-

I'll go with put a cookie in the jar - three questions

1. Who are you ?
2. What day is it?
3. Is there any more toilet paper?

Amen to that!

Lee Grant Irons
12-22-2013, 08:11 PM
I find that the Zen Buddhist practice of drinking tea and focusing on my belly button just leads to me having to take a leak.

I found my effort to get doctors to do something, ANYTHING, a maddening effort, as in "driving me mad."

Speaking of Existential Anxiety, Andrew Solomon mentions it in his TED talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_solomon_depression_the_secret_we_share.html ) and gets some humor out of it at the 11:20 point in the video. I think you might like this. He also has an idea that vitality (as opposed to happiness) is the opposite of depression.