Posted by gabbix2 on December 23, 2003, at 0:36:11
In reply to Re: Fumbling in the Darkness, posted by Lazarus on December 21, 2003, at 23:08:24
> If you don't want to take medication then accept who you are and go with that.
I think for most, the very nature of depression precludes self acceptance
> The French poet Paul Verlaine wrote eloquently about the pain he experienced whenever it rained in Paris. "It rains on the city like it crys in my heart, what is this sadness which penetrates my heart?"I'm sorry Paul got sad when it rained in Paris but I suspect if one gets any recreational melanchokux pleasure from writing about their sadness then they are not, at the moment suffering from depression.
During the and 17th and Early 18th Century depression was romanticized and often those wanting to be seen as deep thinkers affected its attributes.Other writers and artists were incapacitated
by depression, lived in poverty and were dangerous to themselves or others; this is more than emotion. Lets not forget Depression can be far more than sadness it is for many mind bending terror.
Emotion which as a natural reaction is to be celebratedEmotional reactions that arrive out nowhere are disorienting and agonizing to the point of being debilitating, especially when we do not have the luxury of waiting them out.
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