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Opposite of depression is not happiness by (me!) Sandra, tvgp

My handsome prince was doing all the driving so that left me. -after we were kind of conversationed out, to day dream and think at will.

It is a beautiful thing! Being to able to think about anything you want! I could say to my mind... Let's remember my daughter's 4th birthday at Disneyland and then lots of delightful, wonderful memories from that event would dance through my mind.

I could change memory channels at will...

Now let's remember my son's recent basketball game... "oh! That was very exciting!". And my mind would replay scenes from his basketball game

And then a great song would come on the radio and I could at will, think. -choreography. And then my mind would fill with images of magnificent dancers filling a stage and dancing beautifully to whatever song was playing

I could think... Imagination. And then at will, my mind would create artistic visions from. -both, out of nowhere and from what I was actually seeing. -like the gorgeous full moon that was guiding our night drive down highway 5

I could change what I was thinking about with such ease! Decide how long I wanted to think about any given thing

Short or long; or revisit

This is what a strong, healthy, liberated, fully functioning mind can do

If you have PTSD, or a mental illness of any kind, -depression. Or even an overwhelming amount of stress in your life. -you lose the ability to choose your thoughts. -your brain does indeed get highjacked

Your thoughts get locked/jammed. - stuck on one station, if we use the radio station analogy

That's what's it like. - trying to change the radio station but you can't. No other stations exist

Damaged;sometimes and repairable -sometimes beyond repair

But that is why depression. -clinical depression. - the opposite is not perpetual happiness

The opposite is when a person can think whatever they''d like to; at will

Enjoy the spectrum of emotions

As a PTSD survivor. - I remember all too well how locked in fear my thoughts once were. LOCKED. 24/7.

So I delight now. -and offer hope to anyone who might need it. -that healing is possible

And now I am going to go think about

How wonderful it is to be in love.

posted by she @ 12:16 PM