Posted by pete6 on October 29, 1999, at 15:35:38
In reply to Re: "cradling the dark , sad places", posted by yardena on August 20, 1999, at 16:56:41
I was, thankfully, raised in an atmosphere of realising that there are light and dark sides to life - disappointments, dark things and difficulties etc. were constantly used to good effect through 'experience' and we were told to accept things as they came. Now 40 years old I have just entered my first period of depression and it is nothing like those 'dark, sad places' - it is a world of absolutely nothing, something indescribable and not even frightening. It's a sort of death. I once stopped breathing, and when I came round the feeling upon re-entering reality was that it was just as horrific as the nothingness, like re-entering that dark room again. A vicious circle. Life is OK - it's living it that's the problem sometimes.
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