Comments on: Think and Grow Rich test: Are you elated and depressed? http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2009/10/05/think-and-grow-rich-test-are-you-elated-and-depressed/ Observations and musings about things that tickle this big brain of mine... Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:18:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: JD http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2009/10/05/think-and-grow-rich-test-are-you-elated-and-depressed/#comment-334 JD Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:03:59 +0000 http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/?p=388#comment-334 Good evening, Mitch. I agree with what you said. I think that's about the way most, but not all, of us are. Napoleon Hill wrote these questions early in the 20th century and I think he was using elation and depression in terms of extreme emotions, not as synonyms for happy or upset/sad. I have a background in working in a couple of psych hospitals and I've seen people who seriously suffered from elation and depression. Some call it manic/depressive. In the elation stage, nothing can go wrong. In the depressive stage, nothing can go right. They aren't in the continuum, they're locked on one extreme or the other. This can last for a few hours or for long periods of months, but the extended periods are more likely for depression. When someone is really elated or depressed, they lose their objectivity and have a really hard time believing that any other feeling can even exist. At least, that's the way I interpret it. I apologize for taking the question and answering it in the way I did. If I were really talking about elation or depression, I'd have to say I've never experienced an elation state, but I've come close to depression a couple of times and it was hard to pull out of. It didn't take a couple of hours, but several days or even a few weeks. Act on your dream! JD Good evening, Mitch.

I agree with what you said. I think that’s about the way most, but not all, of us are.

Napoleon Hill wrote these questions early in the 20th century and I think he was using elation and depression in terms of extreme emotions, not as synonyms for happy or upset/sad.

I have a background in working in a couple of psych hospitals and I’ve seen people who seriously suffered from elation and depression.

Some call it manic/depressive. In the elation stage, nothing can go wrong. In the depressive stage, nothing can go right.

They aren’t in the continuum, they’re locked on one extreme or the other.

This can last for a few hours or for long periods of months, but the extended periods are more likely for depression.

When someone is really elated or depressed, they lose their objectivity and have a really hard time believing that any other feeling can even exist.

At least, that’s the way I interpret it.

I apologize for taking the question and answering it in the way I did.

If I were really talking about elation or depression, I’d have to say I’ve never experienced an elation state, but I’ve come close to depression a couple of times and it was hard to pull out of. It didn’t take a couple of hours, but several days or even a few weeks.

Act on your dream!

JD

]]> By: Mitch http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2009/10/05/think-and-grow-rich-test-are-you-elated-and-depressed/#comment-322 Mitch Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:33:51 +0000 http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/?p=388#comment-322 This is a strange question, and I wonder if it's lost something in translation over the years. It would seem that everyone is sometimes one or the other. No one walks around neutral all the time. We have good moments and we have bad moments. That's why I think I'm having problems with the question. If it's talking about extremes, well, I'd assume we go there also. For instance, earlier this evening I was looking at a video someone posted on their Facebook account that made me bust a gut laughing. I was definitely overly elated at that moment, and the other two times I watched it. Then I came back to my normal state and moved on. And I haven't been depressed at all today, but there are those moments every couple of days when I get a moment where I wonder if I'm doing the right things, and I pause, then pull myself together and get back to the art of doing what I have to do. Could I be that much different from everyone else? Nope. I think it's the way all of us are. .-= Mitch´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ImJustSharing/~3/gB2hR23-DQk/" rel="nofollow">Creating Your Own Products; Let Me Talk About Mine</a> =-. This is a strange question, and I wonder if it’s lost something in translation over the years.

It would seem that everyone is sometimes one or the other. No one walks around neutral all the time. We have good moments and we have bad moments. That’s why I think I’m having problems with the question.

If it’s talking about extremes, well, I’d assume we go there also. For instance, earlier this evening I was looking at a video someone posted on their Facebook account that made me bust a gut laughing. I was definitely overly elated at that moment, and the other two times I watched it. Then I came back to my normal state and moved on.

And I haven’t been depressed at all today, but there are those moments every couple of days when I get a moment where I wonder if I’m doing the right things, and I pause, then pull myself together and get back to the art of doing what I have to do.

Could I be that much different from everyone else? Nope. I think it’s the way all of us are.
.-= Mitch´s last blog ..Creating Your Own Products; Let Me Talk About Mine =-.

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