Posted: Nov 08, 2016 4:09 pm
chairman bill wrote:igorfrankensteen wrote: My own greatest successful battle against depression, was the day I finally recognized that I actually WANTED to be depressed, because it was the source of a certain amount of safety for me. Rewards or the lack of them had nothing at all to do with it.
That feeling of safety - there's your reward, right there.
There is a fellow who recently spoke in my area, dr. Gabor Mate, who has been working with trauma for a very long time, and he has some interesting views on this topic, as well as cancer, auto immune diseases, etc. He's presenting similar information to Bleiberg and Allen, who were quite influential in partially settling the nurture/nature debate around the year 2000. Dr. Mate has his lectures up on YouTube. Interesting to watch.