Posted by misterB on August 13, 2000, at 18:40:33
In reply to Re: I could have told you Vincent..., posted by Steeler Tookahn on August 13, 2000, at 17:43:47
> The biological illness is immobilizing, physically painful, and robs me of the ability to respond to any situation (good or bad). I find sadness and adversity, on the other hand, emotional states of mind that tend to inspire me to action. One is horrible and meaningless: the other is temporarily painful and insightful.
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...it may not be the same thing that many on this board are experiencing.
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Steeler,I can't discount your perspective regarding your feelings, but I am not so quick to agree that what I feel is much different, subjectively or objectively.
I understand that some might think that, if I find meaning in my condition, I could not possibly hurt the way they hurt. While that might be true, it is possible that my pain, my immobility, and my frustration is more severe and more life threatening. It could be that the sheer magnitude of the risk and suffering in my life, along with my unique experience, compelled and allowed me to identify and embrace the far-removed, immutable social conditions that seem to foster this biological condition.
All psychological conditions are biological. All cultural and social behaviours are based in biological imperatives, and produce biological results.
I can't say you could or should live your life the way I do, but I can say smiling faces often tell lies and that I appreciate honest, bitter, immobilizing sorrow more than I appreciate ersatz oh-so-civil and oh-so-shallow niceties. This thread mentioned that depressives might be unable to express feelings. I tend to see depression as an expression of feeling and "treatment" as often an act of repression.
When this deep, long-lasting sorrow infects a critical mass in our society, perhaps we will collectively find the strength to push this culture out of its dehumanizing, self-destructive mirey pit. Few of us can move society on our strength alone.
poster:misterB
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