tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post657907142550710520..comments2024-03-20T03:33:22.357-07:00Comments on Skeptophilia: Responses to suicideGordon Bonnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06003472005971594466noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-69471257019813199742014-08-13T14:56:59.291-07:002014-08-13T14:56:59.291-07:00You didn't include Shepard Smith at Fox News g...You didn't include Shepard Smith at Fox News getting a lot of flak for calling Williams a coward. He has since apologised, but there have been calls for him to be sacked.Tom Ruffleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03484399305170928582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-60434239506337279682014-08-13T05:51:24.312-07:002014-08-13T05:51:24.312-07:00Having read Walsh's whole post (with which the...Having read Walsh's whole post (with which there are definitely problems), I'm getting a very different message from the quote you selected than you are. For me, this is the key phrase, one which rings absolutely true: 'When we are depressed, we have trouble seeing joy, or feeling it, or feeling worthy of it.'. I don't think Walsh was proposing a one-step therapy plan of 'feel more joyful' at all. I think he was (correctly, whatever his other faults) identifying the problem.<br /><br />It does sound a bit like he's dismissing pharmacology and psychology (more so in the whole post, too), but again, I'm not sure there isn't here a good point being poorly made. The aim of all the treatments I've heard of for depression, or at least all the ones that sounded at all scientific or research-grounded, is the restoration of the various mechanisms of positive feeling (whether we call it joy, or happiness, or just plain old good health). There are drugs to treat blocked hormone systems, there are cognitive therapies to break down the conviction (which plays a large part in my personal experience of depression) that nothing will ever feel good again, but their end result is the reenabling of the physiological and psychological machinery of joy which depression has broken.Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16677076598470332030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-22779619934356087262014-08-13T04:17:14.182-07:002014-08-13T04:17:14.182-07:00amen.amen.Alex Sollahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12222528761667893874noreply@blogger.com