Sunday, December 04, 2005

Hopelessness

JY wrote her feeling TODAY,

“I never know I want to be a writer until I found myself hopeless and don't know how to lead on.”

Life needs HOPE. It grants you no just a direction but energy to survive, courage to rebound and strength to meet challenge from our daily life. Words from people nowadays, however, are more in negative/pessimistic and grey. Like JY’s comment people appealing to such thought may be due to the need of recognition and identification. It feeds you an idea that you aren’t alone and some from another corner of the world suffer as well.

Does any scale can be introduced to measure such virtual feeling – Hopeless? The Answer is YES! And now we have to shift our attention to the fields of Psychology and Psychiatry. For those interest parties, please complete the 20-items following and update me your answer accordingly.

=>Beck Hopelessness Scale

5 comments:

San Wen Ji said...

你說的很對。

人們總認為是你強,是你不明白我的困擾和我的無助。但是翻轉來看,那些常感自己無力的人,又為何不去瞭解那些有生命感的人呢?

San Wen Ji said...

那二十條題目,不用做(但我有看的),我都知道自己是對將來有希望的人。

不是我能力高或是其他,就是知道自己的弱點,所以不去追求那些高於自己能力的東西,量力而為便沒有了絕望感。

梁巔巔 said...

看得開好緊要.

Ruth Tam said...

Hyacinthus: I think blog writers are a bias sample. People who are sad have a greater need to release their emotion than people who are happy. That's why there are so many sad blog writers.
Also, some people think writing about their happiness is showing off. We then have fewer blog writers who write about happiness.
From a literature point of view, sadness is better in arousing people's emotion. If someone treats the blog as a platform for expressing himself/herself through literature, it's more likely that he/she will write sad stories.

Hyacinthus said...

SWJ, 巔巔 and Ruth: It's understanding that bias exists here. However, life needs hope even just a little hope!