How Annihilation Nails the Complex Reality of Depression

Annihilation & The Horrors of Change

1. REFLECTION Movies are not puzzles. I feel like I argue this all the time, but it sure doesn’t stop people from the pursuit. And it seemed like within mere hours people were arguing furious…

Annihilation and Ex Machina director Alex Garland on using sci-fi to explore self-destruction

From artificial intelligence to possible alien intervention.

the depression thing

the depression thing: a neat story about depression and mental health. By Zach Holman.

Different ways to live with dark thoughts

How Zen Buddhism helps me with depression.

How to be perfectly unhappy

This comic was inspired by essay from Augusten Burroughs: How to live unhappily ever after. In addition to the essay, I highly recommend reading his books. It's also been described in psychology as flow.

Depression doesn't shrink the brain like we thought it did | New Scientist

For the past decade, depression has been linked to a shrunken hippocampus, which has a vital role in memory. But a large study using up-to-date scanning techniques suggests this may not be the case

Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?

In this extract from his new book, Johann Hari, who took antidepressants for 14 years, calls for a new approach

The downside of being happy

Nobody likes to be sad, but it can have a powerful and positive effect.

Spielberg’s ‘A.I.’ Divided Critics, but It’s the Ultimate Coming-of-Age Story 20 Years Later

Movies don't change, we do. And where you are in life may affect how you receive the heartbreaking vision of this film.

Twilight of the Spielberg Image

Steven Spielberg's career wrestles with the power and meaning of image-making, and his sci-fi "Disclosure Day" makes this its very subject.

Opinion | The Real Causes Of Depression Have Been Discovered, And They're Not What You Think

To deal with depression, you need to deal with its underlying causes.

Collapse — Oakland Public Library

Collapse — Dallett, Cassandra, — <p>COLLAPSE is a doomed love, temporary, free on bond, haunted by rage and regret, fueled by Hip-Hop beats, and clinging like the remains of the Ghost Ship fire--with the world burning around us, it is time and place, politics and anarchy, connection for the broken.</p><p>Poetry. California Interest.</p>

Optimistic Nihilism | Ryan Dahl

This post is in response to the Optimistic Nihilism video by Kurzgesagt. Optimistic Nihilism perfectly describes my perspective on life and the universe. I want to add my interpretation of the philosophy and spice it up with some science fiction ideas.