Posted by FredPotter on January 22, 2003, at 21:02:06
In reply to Re: Weak-mindedness?, posted by Eddie Sylvano on January 3, 2003, at 9:25:53
The thing which caught my attention was depression being 10 times as prevalent since the war. Globalisation causes it. It sort of rang a bell with me. I live in NZ my Mother and my siblings in UK. But then the site didn't mention it again. I thought we were about to get something really revolutionary like "go and join a tribe in Papua-New Guinea".
A lot is said in CBT about spiralling effects. If A causes B and this feeds back to promote A further then the cycle goes out of control. This would mean a panic attack would end in death very rapidly rather than stop at some point, which is what really happens. Similarly Depression. All these "break the vicious cycle (sic for circle)" theories talk like this. There must be a threshold that stops an exponential increase in A and B
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