tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post2107164487047423008..comments2024-03-24T17:06:47.135-04:00Comments on Story Bones: Monday TMI (or at least too long)Steve Buchheithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-67042773714983952462010-03-10T21:55:30.514-05:002010-03-10T21:55:30.514-05:00Rick from your keyboard to the ears of God, or who...Rick from your keyboard to the ears of God, or whomever it may concern. As I wrote to a friend (who will remain anonymous) recently, "Get it taken care of. We only pass this way but once (as far as we'll remember or know). Life's too short to not experience it (or to affect others that way)."<br /><br />Sheila, it's generally sociable. I could also relate it to "the simple life" (which is really not as true as "have your priorities in line with reality" that the Amish also cherish). But some of it maybe reporting within the Amish community and recognition of symptoms that are under-reported as "that's life", where as in the English community we think of it as "not being right." <br /><br />But I will say, with my interactions with some Amish, they at least appear much more satisfied with their lives. Of course they also make a major life decision early on (and prepare their young to make that decision).Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-72783096874935169012010-03-10T20:37:51.025-05:002010-03-10T20:37:51.025-05:00I'm reading Bill McKibben's "Deep Eco...I'm reading Bill McKibben's "Deep Economy" and he mentions that there is roughly a ten-fold increase in risk for depression across generations (the study he cited looked at people born in 1910 and later). And yet even today, Old Order Amish in Pennsylvania have a depression rate about one-tenth that of their non-Amish neighbors.<br /><br />McKibben suggests that the increase in depression is a result of the erosion in community, in contact, in connection. People are more socially isolated now than at any point in history. <br /><br />I think you're right to point out that depression isn't all the same, and so it should come as no surprise that some people respond well to medications while others do not. But a good number of people would show improvement if there was better social support in this country.sheila, who is not lurking today,noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-12581525863998008652010-03-10T00:42:17.540-05:002010-03-10T00:42:17.540-05:00Depression seriously sucks, Steve, and I hope some...Depression seriously sucks, Steve, and I hope someday they wipe out every variation of it so that the people who suffer through it can enjoy a better quality of life.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14546882686381428986noreply@blogger.com