Posted by Sebastian Flyte on August 25, 2013, at 20:48:07
In reply to Re: A peculiar kind of depression, posted by linkadge on August 25, 2013, at 20:17:45
Thank you for your comments.
This happened 14 years ago. It hasn't happened since, but...in January, still unmarried, I remembered her. In a dream, if you can believe it.
I fell apart. And eight months later Humpty Dumpty is still broken.
I don't want a relationship, per se. People who go looking for them I don't understand at all. Internet dating? Was that a joke? There is someone for everyone...blah...blah...Who wants someone? There's a Jill for every Jack. Who wants Jill? I'd rather be a Carthusian, and may yet become one.
Men who have affairs are incomprehensible to me. People who look for sex without love are incomprehensible to me.
Your use of "adaptive" really misses the point that what one is expected to adapt to may be artificial.
Psychiatry in the case of depression, addiction, and anxiety plays an ideological role in liberal capitalist societies. That is, there are very good reasons why some people drink too much, kill themselves, are always on edge. But when the pathology is in the society nothing can be done. The pathology must be "discovered" in the individual.
I am now taking mirtazapine (I was thin before), venlafaxine, and amphetamine (for the depression).
The current depression may be related to alcohol, so I'm cutting down. But as that alcoholic media editor for the NYTs, David Carr (?), said, the thing about alcohol is it works.
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