Beat Your Depression

Recently I received an email that I believe compliments the information concerning “Tending the Mind Garden” in the free e-book, “As a Man Thinketh”.  I am sure that you will agree that the email contains some very wise words, albeit tongue in cheek, that will help all of us to brighten our days.

To Plant Your Garden

FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING,
PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS:

1. Peace of mind
2. Peace of heart
3. Peace of soul

PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH:

1. Squash gossip
2. Squash indifference
3. Squash grumbling
4. Squash selfishness

PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE:

1. Lettuce be faithful
2. Lettuce be kind
3. Lettuce be patient
4. Lettuce really love one another

NO GARDEN IS WITHOUT TURNIPS:


1. Turnip for meetings
2. Turnip for service
3. Turnip to help one another

TO CONCLUDE OUR GARDEN WE MUST HAVE THYME:


1. Thyme for each other
2. Thyme for family
3. Thyme for friends

WATER FREELY WITH PATIENCE AND CULTIVATE WITH LOVE. THERE IS MUCH FRUIT IN YOUR GARDEN BECAUSE YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW. NOT BAD, HUH?!

My instructions were to send this to people that I wanted God to bless and I picked
you!

Psycho surgery was once used to treat people with difficult to manage mental illness. This consisted of cutting nerve fibers connecting the frontal lobes of the brain with the rest of the brain.

This operation was known as a pre-frontal lobotomy or leucotomy and served to sedate difficult patients.

The practice was originally introduced back in about 1936, or shortly thereafter, by Antonio Moniz, a Portuguese neurologist who had success with the operation when he performed it on monkeys that exhibited neurotic behaviors.

The operation certainly had the desired effect of calming patients and Moniz was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1949 for his work. The only problem was that it also removed the patients’ emotional response so that they became akin to zombies.

This practice was widely used between 1936 and 1978. Reports indicate at least 35,000 in the United States were subjected to the procedure. It was also used in the United Kingdom and probably other countries as well.

Who would have derived the most benefit from this operation? Was it the patient? I doubt so. Or was it the staff of the institutions that “cared” for the patients?

Thankfully, this practice now appears to have been terminated.

Now there are those who consider that the use of drugs achieves the same result of “anesthesia of the soul” or emotional blunting, apathy, or unconcern. [Your Drug May Be Your Problem – Peter R. Breggin, M.D. and David Cohen, Ph.D.]

Perhaps it is time that we paid more attention to “Tending the Mind Garden.”