I was wondering if it would be possible to just write some piece of nice text that would just speak so hard to the brain it would cure depression…
What kind of music do you listen to?
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It would have to be made in such a way to be able to affect any person’s brain, which is going to be hard because everyone has a bit unique brain.
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I’m no expert in depression, is it just caused by for example stressful event or is it “structural error” (with all respect, if it sounded bad).
You can. It’s called hypnosis.
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I mean, is giving your mind away just for the sake of being happy/not sad so much better than being depressed?
Giving your mind away? You don’t give your mind away in hypnosis. In hypnosis, you’re in a state of increased suggestivity. In other words, your mind can be reprogrammed as long as the reprogramming suits your will. You can’t hypnotize someone to force them into murdering people unless they’d be willing to do so in certain cases. What is dangerous though, is erasing or sealing memories as doing so can make you forget your past mistakes.
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Sentence really makes me wonder how much you know about either depression or hypnosis?? Not saying I’m an expert or you’re dumb or anything like that, just, I don’t tend to say stuff like that.
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I am not expert at this either. But I don’t think hypnosis is a good “depression cure”.
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I am not actually particularly pro-hypnosis but I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone who knows much about it say anything about giving your mind away. That seems to mostly be just like how it’s portrayed in fiction which is a terrible way to learn about something. Additionally “is xyz really better than [insert mental illness]?” is a sentence you learn to wince at if you have any mental illnesses or even just friends with some. honestly you might not be wrong, hypnosis might suck or be totally ineffective, I’ve never been hypnotized, but to my knowledge no mind-loosing is involved and most people I know with depression would think it’s pretty cool if they were confident it worked. However, most don’t seem to be rushing to be hypnotized, again, maybe you’re right. Maybe they would be if antidepressants were harder to get or the hypnotists had a better marketing department, I don’t know.
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As far as I can tell a depression cure should remove depression permanently, not temporarily, which is not easy to achieve.
Medication is the number 1 choice for family doctors because they hate sending requests for therapies, scans, etc. It’s easier. However, antidepressants become less and less effective the more you try them, according to Wikipedia IIRC.
I was analogizing them to hypnosis, not support and a better medical system. Those do sound better, but I was comparing one step fixes. Also I’m american. We love medication (joke)
I made a new thread from these posts because no one was providing any science links and just speculating.
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Thanks, being off topic is fun and all but it isn’t very productive.
Anyway, I’m starting to think about trying hypnotherapy.