Feb. 28, 2025 - Dennis Prager Show
03:20
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| So my non-professional answer, which might be a really good one and might not be a good one, is first, I'm a behaviorist. | |
| I believe that behavior modifies feelings and thoughts and psyche. | |
| Therefore, You don't wait to do something. | |
| You have to be mind-directed, not animated by a good voice of ambition, just intellectual understanding, rational understanding. | |
| I have to do X and Y and Z. That's why one of my... | |
| Fundamental beliefs about happiness is act happy, you'll feel happy. | |
| Or at least feel happier. | |
| So you have to do as much. | |
| Get very, very busy. | |
| Get with people. | |
| Monitor what brings you some relief from depression. | |
| And it could be music. | |
| It could be a walk in nature. | |
| It could be... | |
| Having a girlfriend. | |
| It could be art. | |
| It could be work. | |
| There is essentially an infinite number of possibilities. | |
| Get involved in whatever brings you some peace. | |
| And keep doing it. | |
| And keep doing things that you don't even know will bring you peace and try them out. | |
| Hobbies. | |
| Plus all the things I just mentioned. | |
| I don't know how to squash those negative voices in you. | |
| So that's another reason I'm a behaviorist. | |
| Let your voices be your voices and don't let them direct you. | |
| That's where you do have free will. | |
| You may not have free will over these inner voices, but you have free will on whether you listen to them. | |
| Should you take a medication? | |
| I can't answer that. | |
| If you try everything that I've just said, and again, having a community, I don't know how lonely you are, but I know that there's a vast amount of loneliness in America. | |
| That would depress anybody. | |
| All of my broadcast career, I've said to people, you should date for friends. | |
| Like you dated for a spouse. | |
| That's how important it is to find friends. | |
| You have friends. | |
| You have a community. | |
| You have music or art or both. | |
| You have reading or whatever can give you some degree of pleasure. | |
| That should help. | |
| And if none of that helps, I don't have an opposition to medication. |
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