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Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.
He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.
Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.
Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.
Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.
Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.
Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.
The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.
George Mack@george__mack
Winston Churchill used to lay 200 bricks per day to keep his mind busy when feeling down. Depression hates a moving target.
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If he sets up a GofundMe to raise the £2.35M I’ll gladly chip in and rally others to do so as well.
No one should go to prison for making the game affordable and accessible to everyone.
The only reason he’s going to jail is because he took profits off greedy broadcasters.
CentreGoals.@centregoals
🚨🚨| BREAKING: A man who ran an illegal Premier League streaming network has been sentenced to 11 years in 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐍 and must repay £2.35M within three months or face an extra 10 years. The operation had around 30 staff, 50,000 customers, and made over £7M in five years. [@TheAthleticFC]
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@WhitbreadH @Shmlixxz @itsjonmiller @GamewithDave Adjectives describe nouns. It's a Snowman of the Abominable variety lol
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@FlawlessViktory @Shmlixxz @itsjonmiller @GamewithDave It’s not a “fucking” snowman is it? Kids didn’t build it 🤣
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@TonyDurkin1 Good evening Tony, thanks for getting in touch, sorry for the delay in getting back to you, could you please direct message me with your full name, postcode and email address, and which store.
Stewart - Customer Care
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Just encountered the best argument for automated checkouts - the most miserable checkout operator at @tesco. Not even a word, even in reply to my greeting. At least the automated tills say 'Clubcard accepted' - and to think the money I spent is paying his wages 🙄
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