tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099085388835042296.post1399896271797236539..comments2022-08-11T00:33:22.407-07:00Comments on Radical Psych: Depression, Learned Helplessness, and EducationShaunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13442748467425987737noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099085388835042296.post-87062252339274567272008-01-31T10:33:00.000-08:002008-01-31T10:33:00.000-08:00I recently joined RadPsyNet and thus found your bl...I recently joined RadPsyNet and thus found your blog. I feel inspired! I am a psychology undergrad (a year and a half to go) with a minor in sociology. The problem for me is realizing that other people do actually care about psychology. I feel much more at home with the smaller sociology department, because the majority of my peers there are incredibly intelligent, interested, and motivated to learn everything they can in order to put their new-found knowledge to use in the world. <BR/><BR/>Though I truly enjoy sociology, psychology has always been my first love. However, I am sometimes discouraged by the apparent apathy demonstrated by the other students in my psychology department. It seems like a lot of them are here just to get a degree, and hey, psychology is "easier" than other fields, right? Part of my perception is, I am sure, affected by the sheer number of people in our undergrad psychology program, whereas the sociology department is much smaller and therefore more intimate.<BR/><BR/>And now to come back from that tangent... I am inspired and grateful that other people like me (and in someways, much further ahead of me) exist. I myself have experienced some apathy towards psychology as of late, but have recently renewed that initial spark of intrigue. Things like finding RadPsyNet and consequently your blog has helped me do that. Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099085388835042296.post-23641299810045383522008-01-30T00:36:00.000-08:002008-01-30T00:36:00.000-08:00Hi there, interesting stuff you've got here!It's n...Hi there, interesting stuff you've got here!<BR/>It's nice to develop a grassroots student critical/radical psych movement<BR/>I'll sure include you in my blog roll, in the criticalpsygreece.org blog. <BR/>Feel free to drop by and take a peek, there is also some english content in there!criticalpsy.greecehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17625477890756484555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099085388835042296.post-41455984100127286632008-01-29T16:05:00.000-08:002008-01-29T16:05:00.000-08:00The Malaise Theory of Depression The lies we tell ...The Malaise Theory of Depression<BR/> <BR/>The lies we tell ourselves<BR/>tinted in our private colors<BR/>creating intricate maps, instructions<BR/>to hold us against our will<BR/>or better angels<BR/>upon a designated course,<BR/>they creep into our <BR/>chemical soup and wiring<BR/>immersed in thickening trickery<BR/>truth becoming shadow.<BR/>Rolling downhill so easily<BR/>scratches, contusions, bleeding wounds<BR/>unacknowledged in subterfuge<BR/>"It's such a beautiful summer day."<BR/>We say, etching out smiles,<BR/>even crinkles of the eye.<BR/>Alone, in the dark, troubling dreams<BR/>fail to dissipate at daybreak.<BR/>Rolling downhill, smashing into<BR/>hidden walls, jagged rock formations<BR/>Stop! Curl into pre-born refuge.<BR/>Listening to the angry words<BR/>"Surely I am cursed, a failure."<BR/>Never let the truth break through.<BR/>We are ordered to protect the lies<BR/>as insidiously they poison<BR/>and blind us.<BR/>More easily led.<BR/>Less alive.<BR/>Stop! Look! Listen!<BR/>Feel!<BR/>Underneath the grave of lies<BR/>rich earth has secrets to reveal.<BR/>Radiant seed, planted in our birth<BR/>only we may bring to life,<BR/>if we dare move,<BR/>beyond the damage,<BR/>beyond the lies,<BR/>dancing with the shadows<BR/>into brighter days.<BR/> <BR/>(c) January 28, 2007 Laurie Corzett/libramoonlibramoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com