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existential depression » Dinah

Posted by Aphrodite on August 25, 2004, at 6:36:12

In reply to Where I've been, Where I am, Where I'd like to be, posted by Dinah on August 24, 2004, at 19:44:31

I know if I didn't have the traumatic life history plus the situational depression and anxiety that occurs in my daily life, I'd still have an underlying and profound existential depression. I once read a description of it that it is the inexplicable feeling of aloneness and sadness that is still there when daily preoccupations have gone by the wayside and that cannot be filled by any tangible events or people. So, I always believe I'm chipping away at 3 layers of depression. I'm entrenched in trying to put out the fires of the situational problems which leaves me little time to dig into the past trauma and certainly no time to reflect on being plagued by existential depression.

I guess my point is that existential depression hides in the shadows and isn't easily isolated and can disguise itself as many other things.

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