EP14 Last Fresh Start: Ideologies, Mindset, Depression & Recovery

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

I hate to break it to you. You probably know someone currently or know someone that had some type of depression. I had secondary depression. I had to take a break from doing Podcasts after witnessing a horrific event on my street back in May 2020. I realized then I needed to do something to straighten myself. I'm now finishing up this masters degree and applying for my Phd. The secondary depression was nothing special. It was not isolated to anything I experienced being in the military. Truth be told this could have happened to anyone. I wanted to know what I was dealing with. I went to a psychologist and got an eval. Turns out I have a combined presentation ADHD she labeled it as high functioning combined presentation ADHD. Means I pay too much attention and trying to be like normal turds runs my emotions dry. Aren't we all a little crazy? In this last episode of my first season I come clean to show that its okay and we all deal with crap. Its not about the crap, its about our response to the crap. After my diagnosis I got put on Vyvanse and an ancient philosophy to autocorrect myself. Stoicism philosophy.

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ” - Epictetus

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor Frankl

“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” – Epictetus

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality." - Seneca

Infusing Stoic therapy with Socratic questioning of oneself is a very powerful tool, employed with cognitive distancing and stoic function analysis, stoicism will seem almost super human.