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Lying to yourself isn’t really lying is it? (i.imgur.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I have major depression. I've learned to hack it in various ways by, not exactly lying, but by making logical arguments that appeal to it.

I do 4 high intensity, 2 hour workouts a week like clockwork, just by reminding myself that I have a significant family history of sudden cardiac deaths, and that my greatest hope for escape from the pain of life, because I'm too much of a coward to do it directly, is to simply make my heart go boom.

Every workout is a lottery ticket to my problems being over! And bonus points, if I die doing cardio, my death wasn't embarrassing! "Look at him, dying on the stair machine, what a go getter!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I honestly can't tell if this is more healthy than unhealthy lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Neither can I, which is why it works.

Unhealthy means for healthy ends. Its literally worked for a decade though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's actually a pretty big brain strategy on the path to the coveted quick and sudden death.