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Mental Health Quotes – Positive and Negative

I’m just using one quote for this one. It, to me, is both encouraging and completely the opposite, all at the same time.

‘The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: entropy increases. Things fall apart.’ John Green from ‘Looking For Alaska’.

First, the encouraging way of looking at this: what happens would happen anyway. What is the point of feeling guilty, or of self-blame, if there was nothing you could have done to change things? Maybe you could have slowed things down or sped them up, but hey, they were going to collapse at some time or other, whatever you did or said. The rule of entropy says that everything that comes together falls apart.
Turn it around though, and it becomes just another sign of our powerlessness. Whatever we do, we can’t change things. The outcome is inevitable so where is the point in trying? This feeling of helplessness is one of the fundamental causes of depression.
Maybe at another time this quote would not seem so powerful to me, but right now, at least in its negative form, it really sums up how I feel.