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llego

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  1. The system cant. Every Chelsea and Man City inflates prices across the board, forcing smaller clubs into increasingly irresponsible spending in an attempt to keep up.
  2. Turns out short term thinking, massive unsustainable over investment, and an accompanying media hype machine trying to cash in weaken a league over time. Not really a surprise, is it?
  3. He would first try to lick it, mistaking it for a window, before settling for a quick headfirst snuggle, mistaking it for his missing hair.
  4. Lenins a wierdo, what kind of an adult still does that commie stuff? Was over it at 17.
  5. Ya codgers. Its adolescence, its supposed to get a bit weird. Sounds like you two often catch yourself thinking of dicks and then fly into fits of self hating rage.
  6. Bit of a weird reaction Lenin old boy... Sounds like youre having some internal battles to be honest.
  7. Rafa is a humble man, a compassionate man, and of course a very intelligent man. But hes too reliant on his mind. At some deep level, he thinks he can control everything. When this belief clashes with unpredictable reality, the result is he becomes overly risk averse. Rafa needs to close his eyes and let go...
  8. Relationship advice on here is a bit like medical advice from WebMD... you always have cancer!
  9. Just got this email from my little brother. He's 22. How I wish I was there with him!!
  10. Stubborness is your ego closing you off to reality, its really only hurting yourself in the long run. Of course Im open to disagreement on the matter and wont be arguing my point.
  11. My little brother has suffered from depression in recent years. Hes far more successful than me by anyones measure, graduated from Harvard and got grants to do field research all across South America... and yet these crippling bouts of depression reduce him to feeling utterly worthless. Hes just paralyzed when its really bad, cant leave his room. Having been on and off meds for a while, and also in various therapy and counseling programs, he had come to see it as a condition that would always be with him, that he had to avoid through finding the right environment. One of the psychologists he saw told him the self fulfiling prophecy that people who had a bout of depression were more likely to be depressed again. All this combined to create an intense fear of the depression in him, so that a slight mood dip could quickly escalate into a severe bout. One of the main causes, I think, is that like many people in our culture, he identifies with what he does (mainly in a work/career sense). When hes doing many interesting things, he feels valued and has a high self worth. When he has little to do, he feels worthless. Of course, the worse he feels, the more driven he is to do things, the more overwhelmed and paralyzed and unable to do anything he becomes... What seems to help the most is bringing himself back to the present. The depression, the fear, it all exists in his mind, in an imagined future or a remembered past. None of it's real. Right now, right at this moment, he just is, and he is worth the same no matter what his current activity may be. In this regard sitting meditation has been a helpful tool as well.
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