One work that has really helped me recently is a text about Buddhism, but if you remove the Buddhist front it really is a text about being in the moment, regardless of your belief system.
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Mental Illness as a Musician, Part 5
It is invigorating to both think quickly, and to use that to accomplish tasks. However, having racing thoughts is much different than thinking quickly.
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We tend to think that, as humans, we get addicted to physical things: drugs, sex, gambling, money, fighting, etc. Yet, I haven’t heard anyone talking about addiction to thought–addiction to thinking.
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Fight. Don’t overcome; you can’t. Just keep fighting, becoming, and sharing your story. That’s all that matters.
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One of the main takeaways I had was that, as a society, we focus too much on what we don’t have, what the next big thing is, and how things could be.
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(This was written on 11/30/16, for posting on 12/1/16.) I would like to write on a rather personal topic tonight. I have a mood disorder, an amalgamation of mental illness that is best described on a spectrum (i.e. there is a spectrum of mood disorders, and I am somewhere on that spectrum, with my own […]
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