Why does reading books alot help with depression, mental health problems and juice your cognitive abilities?
The cognition benefits i understand because its improvements from mental work, but why does that ease depression
>Blocks your depression
Why does reading books alot help with depression, mental health problems and juice your cognitive abilities?
The cognition benefits i understand because its improvements from mental work, but why does that ease depression
>Why does reading books alot help with depression, mental health problems
It doesn't. it's the opposite.
Yeah there's studies that indicate higher intelligence with higher rates of depression
Make of this what you will
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related to mental fitness
yeah me too i notice my mood is way better when im reading alot
in some cases, is depression springing from low cognitive ability?
like these dummies:
depression has a direct correlation to high intelligence, maybe you're the one with low cognitive ability anon
110 IQ diss
>ignorance is bliss
How do I dumbmaxx?
Opposite. Intelligence leads to depression when you don’t read. Much like innate high fitness levels would cause someone depression if they never work out. If reading makes you happier that means you are intelligent.
If reading makes you happier that means you are intelligent.
is that real
hundreds of studies say you're objectively wrong so...thanks for playing? It's not 1998 on AIM anymore anon you can't just make shit up lmao
>It's not 1998 on AIM anymore anon you can't just make shit up lmao
misinformation is at an all time high anon
the fact that there is so much useless information out there means that any moron can find a study to support their viewpoint
people make their mind up first and then backfill the logic with a pubmed trash study to cite that they're right all the time
>studies
take it to
chief
you type like a gay
Depression definitely correlates with closed mindedness, stress, and irritability. I don't think intelligence has anything to do with depression. If anything, smarter people are more likely to sit around ruminating, which can worsen depression. To be honest, I think it's mostly biochemical. Reduce stress, eat healthy, get plenty of sunlight, and be around people who you connect with and who care about you, and you'll find it nearly impossible to be depressed.
Also, the people you're replying to could in fact be demoralization bots (yes, those are real). Just ignore them.
I agree with your advice but.. I have a good life, nice gf, own a couple of houses etc. I'm not depressed in the mong around doing nothing and don't leave the house sense but it is always in the back of my mind. We're slaves in some holographic matrix/conciouness prison ran by psychopaths, you can't escape that not matter how good life is
Yes, being a slave in clown world is inherently depressing. I don't really have any good advice for that. I just try to focus on what I can control. Worrying about things I can't change is pointless self-torture.
IQ too high, no cure except masking it with recreational drugs, unfortunately
>namegay troony central
no thanks, I'm sticking with the greeks
>in depressive stink
>open book
>lay in bed for 14 hours reading
yea good one, moron
My guess would be because it's relaxing. There is no noise or bright light/wacky colors trying to grab your attention; it's just you and the words on the page. It's also a break from the stresses of modern life and from devices, which really just serve to addict you to mindless bullshit and steal your energy. I've recently gotten back into reading and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. It's a great way to wind down at the end of the day. I light a few candles, turn off all other lights, and just read.
its a success experience that is easily scaled eg. even if you read just one page you got something measurable done which increases your sense of agency and meaning in life, both things people with depression lack
this too. tuning into an activity like reading will make you focus less on your negative feelings which will result improved mood. its not so much that reading in and of itself helps depression but any meaningful and accessible activity like that will. and reading is a fine example of one
I love reading but I'm currently reading a book about how the goverment used fear to control us during covid. It makes me a little more depressed each time I read it
Ive found this works for me also.
A friend who studies brain/psychology some gay crap like that said because reading is excellent at alleviating hypo frontal syndrome
reading increases blood flow to frontal lobes believe it or not
meditation also reduces the size of your fear centre
QRD on hypo frontal?
also interested to understand this
the guy viewed the world as hell and thought the best move was just to make for yourself a little space away from the flames
he NEETed with his poodle and practiced flute every day
he thought enlightenment automatically led to NoFap
>I never knew a trouble an hour's reading couldn't fix
t. Schopenhauer
Interesting did he say anything more about that, was he talking about mental problems?
I just finished team of rivals and the last paragraph made me feel dead inside in a way I haven't felt in a while and this is coming from a history major
Finding out Mary was sent to an insane asylum by her own son and then spending her last years as a recluse made me genuinely sad
There's also Kate chase who was practically queen of the Washington social circle and died a penniless widow
>history major
ur sad cuz ur broke
Then why does your mother enjoy my company so much hur hur hur
nah im just joking, i study the same thing. what am i in for post grad?
Honestly depends on your area. You can likely get a halfway decent gig with government or a museum if you have any where your at. If not you'll probably end up teaching which isn't bad as a starting job. I'm planning on going back for my masters next year so I can teach at the college level
Short, dumber-down version: normal people, particularly men, routinely suppress our emotions in favor of logical thought and action. This is not a bad thing, but the trouble is that the emotions don't actually go away. They sit somewhere in your head. Over time, a lot of people (again, men in particular) will let this build up until it's almost crippling. Your unprocessed emotions are basically constantly feeding distress signals to your logical mind even when you think you're calm.
It's not PTSD but it works on a similar mechanism. You avoid processing emotions habitually, so they remain distressing.
The best ways to process these feelings require time and unfettered use of your whole brain. Prior to modern life, most people would have a few hours each day of walking, manual labor, or other quiet solitude in which your unconscious mind could work things out. Sleep was not disturbed by electronics, caffeine, or alarms or weird hours, either. Dreams from deep, uninterrupted sleep are actually one of the best ways to deal with this.
Reading, like meditation and long walks, basically gives your brain license to take down the barriers holding in your feelings and process them. The same parts of the brain used for visualization also do most of your emotional processing. Letting that part work with your logical mind helps process everything, even unconsciously.
So basically set aside an hour each day with no electronics, and if you're introverted, with no other people. If you have kids, put them to bed early and get that hour in.
it means you depression is caused by too much internet use. You needed to calm your mind with focus.
Because it allows you to focus. I notice my mind wandering a lot when I read and it used to piss me off but now I realized it's one of the few times when I actually get time to THINK and not have an endless stimulus of garbage injecte dinto my mind.
Reading is based and I should do it more often.
Because the happiness of man comes from the exercise of his proper faculty, which is the rational faculty. Pleasure seekers are never happy because it's inherently a subhuman frame of reference. Reading the canonic works makes you happy because it's a breath of the most human in you.
P.S. Aristotle explained this perfectly some 2500 years ago and mindlets are still seething
what he say
Summarising greatly: objective reality exists and our knowledge of it proceeds by identifying the nature of specific things (metaphysics). From there, he goes to human nature, whose proper development results in excellence/virtue (ethics). It's in the latter that the connection with reading, for instance, comes into play. Insofar as learning is a virtue, it helps to make you virtuous/excellent/happy. There's good lectures on the Nichomachean Ethics on YT, and the PDFs are on libgen.
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Because you're focusing on something and giving the rest of your brain time to relax. Reading also requires you to block out your other thoughts in order to stay focused on what you're reading.