what do physchologists think about poetry and depression?
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When I was seeing a psychologist, he had me write poetry because it is a way to get out feelings and sometimes that can help alleviate some of the sadness and other emotions associated with depression.
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Your regular physician will refer you to a local pyschiatrist if he feels you are depressed. I hope you get the help you need soon.
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15784. THEORIES OF POETRY. This essay explores the nature and meaning of poetry and of human aesthetic expression in general. Following an overview of existing theories of poetry (looking at the ideas of Wordsworth and Coleridge), the foundation for the analysis is an examination of Justus Buchler's theoretical perspective and critical writings of Martha Nussbaum and then an application of these ideas to Matthew Lipman's Suki. Written 2002. 21 pages, 31 footnotes, 8 bibliographic sources.
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First think about something that makes you happy, or sad, then put it into as sentence. After that, think of a rhymining word for the last word or two words.\nBefore you know it you'll be writing a poem!
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This is not going to make me popular but I feel that while there are people that are genuinely depressed and rightly diagnosed, a lot of people are quick to categorize themselves as depressed.  (goes hand in hand with this 'I'm a victim' mood that is prevelant in the west.) And some doctors are more than happy to go with it and prescribe medication.  Ups and down are part of life.  I think to many people here are always looking for the magic bullet - a pill that makes the problem go away rather than looking inward and dealing with it in a way that is not instant or easy.
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Is there anyone else out here that knows what living with clinical depression is like?\n\nSpiritual this, Love that...\n\nSeriously look into some forms of controlling a chemical imbalance.\n\nI KNOW.
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Depression and sadness.
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"Depression: Poor me, what a world, what a way to go, what's the point, I am a dark cloud. Periodically depression and gloom will raise its head; no life is without it and depression as a stage follows no course or order. A treatment plan, medication, support groups, verbal therapy may all help when one is in despair. To fight depression one also needs to be proactive. I'm not telling anyone to walk around with an insipid, plastered-on grin, but to work with mental health professionals and keep your depression at normal levels. Depression can be a sign of acceptance and the possible drive to seek out treatment programs for your own emotional health, so again look at this as a warning sign."\n\ni got this from a site... anyways, i think the paragraph above is an insightful answer already... anyways, i personally think that it would be better if you talk your problems out to someone like a psych. they can even prescribe u with anti-depresants.. think of your access to drugs! haha.. just kiddin'!.. good luck, pal!
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If you are depressed at the moment some of the following symptoms may sound familiar: \n\nYou feel miserable and sad.\nYou feel exhausted a lot of the time with no energy .\nYou feel as if even the smallest tasks are sometimes impossible.\nYou seldom enjoy the things that you used to enjoy-you may be off sex or food or may 'comfort eat' to excess.\nYou feel very anxious sometimes. \n\nYou don't want to see people or are scared to be left alone. Social activity may feel hard or impossible.\n\nYou find it difficult to think clearly.\n\nYou feel like a failure and/or feel guilty a lot of the time.\n\nYou feel a burden to others.\n\nYou sometimes feel that life isn't worth living. \n\nYou can see no future. There is a loss of hope. You feel all you've ever done is make mistakes and that's all that you ever will do.\nYou feel irritable or angry more than usual.\n\nYou feel you have no confidence.\n\nYou spend a lot of time thinking about what has gone wrong, what will go wrong or what is wrong about yourself as a person. You may also feel guilty sometimes about being critical of others (or even thinking critically about them).\nYou feel that life is unfair.\n\nYou have difficulty sleeping or wake up very early in the morning and can't sleep again. You seem to dream all night long and sometimes have disturbing dreams.\n\nYou feel that life has/is 'passing you by.'\n\nYou may have physical aches and pains which appear to have no physical cause, such as back pain.\n\nIt's this wealth of depression symptoms, and the broad scope that confuses many people as to what depression actually is. Explanations rarely cover all the symptoms, and everybody's experience is different.
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I think,there must be a seperate state of poets where there is only love,poetry,inspirations,feelings etc.every one talk to other in poems .Poets muat have thier own imaginary world.
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go to a group poetry reading,they may have the answers you need
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I dont think so. My boyfriend suffered with depression and he did not want to feel that way and couldnt understand why. He ended up hating himself for being that way. \n\nDepression is a disease that tricks your brain into thinking everything is bad when nothing is bad at all.\n\nWe cannot choose how we get hurt but we can choose how we get healed.\n\nHe's fine now btw.
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depression, if not treated soon or correctly, could be fatal. Enjoying "favorites" is and can be of help but ultimately, you should seek out a professional. They have the tools and skills that you will need to overcome the depression. Along with therapy, they could provide you with some type of medication which will be of great help to you in the long run. \ngood luck.
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On "Anyone lived in a pretty how town"...\n"anyone lived in a pretty how town"\n\nR. P. Blackmur (1941)\n\nMr. Cummings' poems depend entirely upon what they create in process, only incidentally upon what their preliminary materials or intentions may have been. Thus, above all, there is a prevalent quality of uncertainty, of uncompleted possibility, both in the items and in the fusion of the items which make up the poems; but there is also the persistent elementary eloquence of intension--of things struggling, as one says crying, to be together, and to make something of their togetherness which they could never exhibit separately or in mere series. The words, the meanings in the words, and also the nebula of meaning and sound and pun around the words, are all put into an enlivening relation to each other. There is, to employ a word which appealed to Hart Crane in similar contexts, a sense of synergy in all the successful poems of Mr. Cummings: synergy is the condition of working together with an emphasis on the notion of energy in the working, and energy in the positive sense, so that one might say here that Mr. Cummings' words were energetic. The poems are, therefore, eminently beyond paraphrase, not because they have no logical content--for they do, usually very simple--but because so much of the activity is apart from that of logical relationships, is indeed in associations free of, though not alien to, logical associations. In short, they create their objects.\n\n...I have been one of his admirers for twenty-one years since I first saw his poetry in the Dial; and it may be that my admiration has gone up and down so many hills that it is a little fagged and comes up to judgment with entirely too many reservations. Yet I must make them, and hope only that the admiration comes through.\n\nFirst, there is the big reservation that, contrary to the general belief and contrary to what apparently he thinks himself, Mr. Cummings is not...an experimental poet at all....\n\nMy second reservation...has to do with his vocabulary, which seems to me at many crucial points so vastly over-generalized as to prevent any effective mastery over the connotations they are meant to set up as the substance of his poems....\n\nMy third reservation is minor, and has to do with the small boy writing privy inscriptions on the wall; a reservation which merely to state is sufficiently to expound. Some of the dirt perhaps comes under the head of the poetry of gesture, and some perhaps is only the brutality of disgust. My complaint is meant to be technical; most of the dirt is not well enough managed to reach the level of either gesture or disgust, but remains, let us say, coprophiliac which is not a technical quality.\n\nfrom R. P. Blackmur, "[Review of 50 poems]." Southern Review 7 (1941): 201-05.\n\nhttp://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cummings/reviews.htm\n\n\n\nSome of Cummings's most famous poems do not involve much if any odd typography or punctuation at all, but still carry his unmistakable style. For example, one famous poem begins:\n\nanyone lived in a pretty how town\n(with up so floating many bells down)\nspring summer autumn winter\nhe sang his didn't he danced his did\n\n\nWomen and men(both little and small)\ncared for anyone not at all\nthey sowed their isn't they reaped their same\nsun moon stars rain\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings\n\n\nPoetry as a literary genre is more dependent on the subtleties and nuances of languages than other forms. It depends on every word on the page, its sound and position on the page, the use of figurative language to present a myriad of meanings in a short space. 'O Sweet Spontaneous' and 'anyone lived in a pretty how town' by e.e. cummings are two poems that illustrate this idea.\n'anyone lived in a pretty how town' is set out in quatrains with irregular rhyme and internal rhyme.The conventional stanzaic pattern s
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Please take a look at some websites like healthyplace.com and take a depression quiz.  There are some serious differences between sadness and depression.\n\nNobody here can diagnose you with either one.  Without a proper analysis from a physician, you cannot be diagnosed.. so please don't listen to anyone who says either one..  you would be much better off seeing a doctor.\n\nI would personally take a visit to a counselor, who could then refer you to the appropriate person..  Believe me, it makes a world of difference.. and remember, you are NOT alone.  *hugs*
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The way I dealt with depression was to get into a deep study of the Bible.  Although I still sometimes get depressed, it is nowhere at all what it used to be.  I now know ABSOLUTELY that someone cares about me and loves me and will help me.\n\nJehovah's witnesses offer free home Bible studies at your convenience and without commitment.
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Here is a link for a self test\n\n\nhttp://www.firelily.com/support/depression/depression.selfcheck.html