Depressed. When was the Last Time You Played? Make a Playdate with Yourself.

Children playing at creating the effect of a wet day with bellows

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Some helpful links:

What's your play personality? The 8 Play Personality Types

Mental Health Benefits of Play

Here's a Book you might like: 

 Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown

         Book review of the above book

Insightful Quotes: George Bernard Shaw:

         We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. 

Albert Einstein: 

         Play is the highest form of research.

Why is My Mind Full of Black Holes?

Why is my mind so full of black holes? Black holes are areas in outer space that swallow everything that comes near them. My mind has many of these swallowing engulfing heavy spaces.  They swallow my useful productive thoughts and replace them with depressive painful thoughts.

 Mind has pain when I am caught in one of these black holes. A kind of phantom pain. Phantom pain is physical pain that feels like it is originating in a limb but the limb isn't there. The limb has been removed. So my black holes are the phantom pain when my mind is not connected, not connected to living.

My mind's black holes are the depressive phantom pain from not living...the life is drawn out of me.

Source: NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/nustar/multimedia/pia16695.html

I can reduce my phantom pain by looking at myself. Physical therapists address phantom pain using mirrors. I never used to look at myself in a mirror. Maybe using a mirror I can pull myself out of my mind's black holes. Mirror therapy for the mind's black holes of phantom pain when the mind is cut off from living.

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