Posted on 05/04/2020 6:22:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
Depressed dads don’t?
Such a big topic. The feminists 60 years ago were complaining that women were unhappy because they were isolated in the suburbs, not allowed to go to college and not allowed to have careers. None of that was true. But they presented women as terribly oppressed. And, of course the women were taking uppers and downers to get through their days. The Rolling Stones sang about Mothers little helper.
Just forward to today, women are all miserable and oppressed. Their domestic life isnt happy, their work life isnt happy, and they are all taking Prozac or something similar because they are so depressed.
My feeling is that a lot of women today are genuinely miserable.
My feeling is that women 60 years ago were mostly quite happy with being housewives.
I think the feminists created a world of unhappy women by spreading a myth that women were unhappy and that feminism would make them happy. All lies.
This is a good book:
Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism by Graglia, F. Carolyn. It shows that women had careers, ran businesses, went to college and did all sort of stuff prior to 1960 — if they wanted to do those things. Most of the women preferred to focus on marriage and kids and were happy in that choice. Then society started steering women away from that choice.
...Depressed dads dont?
They just go to work anyway. Safer there /duck
This was the basis of the movie “About a boy” starring Hugh Grant.
One day when we have a better understanding of depression I think we'll find that it's a combination of multiple factors - genetic predisposition, light, diet, life situation, spiritual life, stress, sleep, exercise . . . There have already been a number of genes identified that have a connection to depression. There may be situations where the genetic factors are so strongly stacked toward depression that it is difficult for a person to avoid it. In other cases, a person seems resilient to nearly all of what life throws at them while remaining mentally healthy. Most of us are somewhere in between. Most of the time we're OK, but if a lot of things hit us at once, we find ourselves sinking and struggling to cope. I think it is a mistake of our times that we tend to view depression as a strictly medical problem. It has physical aspects, but if all we do is prescribe pills for it, we neglect the development of coping skills. Building life skills and an ability to recognize which stressors (and therapies) most affect an individual can help many people avoid long-term drug therapy.
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The lady in VN whom all her relatives expected to commit suicide sometime shortly is now a well adjusted very middle class in manner mother of two with a very good husband. The problem in VN is that until the last couple of years with the advent of western fashions, females have covered up to hide from the sun because their mothers tell them from birth to never let the sun touch their skin lest they turn black and can never get a husband. M/D in VN is much more common among women than here. That is changing with Western short dresses and short sleeves. They get good suntans and lo! they still find husbands.
There were lots of miserable women 60 years ago. They used alcohol to deal with it. I grew up with it all around me.
I did not mean to imply that the concept of “miserable women” was suddenly invented 60 years ago.
Perhaps women are always miserable. I don’t know.
My point was that Feminists claimed that Feminism would make women less miserable. I see this as a false claim. If anything, I think a strong case can be made that feminism has made men, women and children more miserable.
Mother's Little Helper.
How much D in supplimental form did you recommend?
I don’t think it has made people more miserable. It did however give some people false hope.
I was at a party with an Irish family once, who had a friend there who is a psychologist. The Irish-Americans were talking about whether there is a genetic connection to depression. The psychologist said, about the Irish as a genetic group, "The men drink; the women have depression."
She did not mean that the men's drinking caused the women's depression, but rather that it was both sexes' expression of low serotonin in the brain.
I take 5000 units, one wee gelcap, a day. My brother takes 2000 and has been virus free for eleven years. My problem with the 2000 is that I only find them in big caplets. I like the little gelcaps better. Easier. I don’t get much sunshine because I work at night so I rely wholly on the gelcaps.
5000 units-one elcap.
Thanks so much!!
That’s super! I swear by D3 and my ‘happy light’ during the winter. This time of year, I just get outside. I can feel a difference when we have a string of rainy days.
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