After years of depression, I'm sure my personality is one of the cause of me still being depressed. And if I went to therapy, I'd expect and want it to change. But change is scary, and I suppose that's why some depressed persons don't want to seek help. There's sometimes comfort in suffering.
Another reason is that the not-desesperate me feels shallow and boring. But there's probably a hopeful me that's not. I haven't found it yet, it requires more effort.
I remember Étienne Klein explaining that one of the theory why the universe is flat (if you take 3 galaxies and draw a triangle using them as points the sum of the angles will always be 180) is that we might be like an ant sitting on a ball. The ant only sees so much of the ball and from its perspective everything is flat. But in reality the ball is round.
I have fibromyalgia, which is characterised by chronic pain caused by muscle tension. Out of all the methods I've tried to limit pain, from meditation to weight lifting, cuddling has been the most effective. All muscle tension just instantly melts away. I wonder if oxytocin would work as a light pain killer.
I feel like "far-right" lost its meaning. Further right than the center-right, sure, but are all those parties and persons really openly racist, advocating for discrimination and authoritarianism ?
Some Europeans countries (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria ) and China have banned hiding one's face one's face in public. Those Asian face masks would be OK, but tribal masks wouldn't.