Posted by seldomseen on February 4, 2009, at 19:38:45
In reply to Differentiating sadness, posted by seldomseen on February 3, 2009, at 21:00:04
Of course, I deal a lot in hematology, so that is probably not as odd as it comes across.
Blood, when it leaves the heart, does so under a lot of pressure. The vasculature then branches and branches until finally the blood reaches a capillary bed. In the capillaries, there is such extensive branching, the pressure of the blood dissipates. Blood then begins to return to the heart, where it gets repressurized, only to dissapate again.
I think these current events have functioned like a capillary bed for sadness. With each each, the grief branched and dissipated. I think it was about dispersion.
I wish I could say that what was happening is like a river flowing through a delta, then ultimately discharging into the open ocean, never to return. But it's not. I think this is a closed system. With endless cycles of pressurization and discharge.
I will admit that therapy and meds (my hair is actually not hair any longer, but crystalline prozac I suspect) have helped to dampen the system somewhat, but I'm clearly not out of it yet.
Thanks for all of your posts.
Seldom.
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