Posted by sweetmarie on September 12, 2001, at 17:18:06
In reply to Re: I'm terribly saddened - a UK response » sweetmarie, posted by shelliR on September 12, 2001, at 14:49:16
> Anna, I am so glad that you wrote what you did. I have also plummeted from depression into deep suicidal depression since yesterday. I saw my pdoc today and we talked about possible hospitalization. It never occurred to me how my depression was affected by yesterday's tragedy until I came home and read some of the posts and felt sickened by the debates and analysis. I am way too entrenched in grief to not be offended by purely analytical thinking and any mention of justification by the Palestinians, even if politically I have been in partial agreement with those views.
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> Then I went back and reread your post and realized that of course, this is why I have been so severely depressed since yesterday afternoon. It was an out-of my-direct life-crisis that toppled right on top of my depression. Your post gave me amazing perspective and it seems strange that my pdoc did not at all ask if my sudden plunge was at all related to our national disaster. In not understanding my depression, I was also dumping on myself for it's self-centeredness.
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> Anyway, thanks so much; your post, I think, will make my sudden dive less scarey to me.
> ShelliShelli
I`m glad that my post helped. It was a horrific attack, and raises all kinds of issues - not least the capacity of some to cause such suffering. It shakes our whole view of humankind. However, whilst there is great evil in the world, there is also great good. It is worth remembering this at this time.
Having said all that, I still feel awful - worse than for a long time. Grief passes, though. We will all get through this.
Love,
Anna.
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