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David Axelrod
David Axelrod@davidaxelrod·
This is fascinating.
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka

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.

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Hey, guys! Please say hi if you see me; they are silencing me now. 💙
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Art Encyclopedia
Art Encyclopedia@artenpedia·
‘Cat Concert ’ by Ferdinand Van Kessel, (1648 -96)
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Let Us Now Praise... The Beatles
Let Us Now Praise... The Beatles@BeatlesPraise·
"I was in love with the Beatles. I was a real Beatle fanatic. When I was with Miles [Davis], I had an apartment in New York with a Beatles poster up on my wall. When you walked in the front door, it was staring you right in the face. People would come to visit and they’d see this poster and say, 'Man, why you got that on your wall?' You know, here I am supposed to be this 'jazzer' and I’m listening to the Beatles. "It’s the tunes, the music, the whole thing. In ‘65, I told Miles we oughtta do a tour with the Beatles; we oughtta open up for them. "Even now, when I listen to some of that stuff, it connects with me." --#TonyWilliams #Jazz #Fusion #Drums #MilesDavis #Lifetime #HallsOfFame #TheBeatles
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George Wallace
George Wallace@MrGeorgeWallace·
There is no one else like you. Don't forget it. Love y'all.
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James Anthony 💎
James Anthony 💎@JamesMartirq7p·
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life—music and cats.” ~Albert Schweitzer
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Art or Other Things
Art or Other Things@ArtorOtherThing·
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Drafts of a Genius. [Scientific and Artistic Studies]
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The Sting
The Sting@TheStingisBack·
Rita Moreno is one of just three people to win an Emmy for The Muppets, the other two: Bernadette Peters and Peter Sellers. The comedy timing during her performance of "Fever" while Animal attempts to railroad her is incredible. It was also done in one take "Dat my kinda woman!"
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David Portier
David Portier@davidportier·
Dear restaurant owners: We all hate the QR code menus. Stop. -everyone
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Michael Beschloss
Michael Beschloss@BeschlossDC·
Beatles' first album "Please Please Me" is released in UK today 1963:
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The Internet Remains Undefeated
The Internet Remains Undefeated@WebUndefeated·
Okay but this is officially the best hiring story ever. A company in Mexico rescued an orange stray cat and decided not only to keep him… but to hire him. They named him Engineer Miauricio and gave him the title of Emotional Support Director. His responsibilities include smiling at coworkers, gently meowing, and walking around the office making everyone’s day better.
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No Cats No Life
No Cats No Life@NoCatsNoLife_m·
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The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat
The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat@LorenzoTheCat·
Dear @X support, our dear friend Larry @Number10cat has been locked out of his account. We all love him and he adds so much to this site, please try to help him get his account back. Thank you. 🐱
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Journal of Art in Society
Journal of Art in Society@artinsociety·
Egyptian prince Thutmose was entombed with his companion cat Ta-Miu (aka “little mewer”). Here’s the cat’s sarcophagus ~ the inscription says “I myself am placed among the imperishable ones that are in the Sky / For I am Ta-Miu, the Triumphant” (1,500 BC)
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