Posted by Damos on February 14, 2005, at 15:56:20
In reply to Re: Depression? » Susan47, posted by smokeymadison on February 9, 2005, at 16:38:50
Love your poem. I come from a land down under and have suffered chronic depression since my mid teens (40 now). A couple of years ago I saw an alternate therapist as part of my healing journey and though I can't really explain what it is she did/does, what she talked to me about was how being 'incomplete' in a whole bunch of relationships was causing me all sorts of problems. She made me do an exercise with a wooden folding chair, where she asked me just to focus on it and feel the relationship with it and sense if it was complete or not and just to work through everything I felt in focusing on the chair blah, blah, blah. Get to the point Damo's. Well after a couple of minutes all sorts of issues related to my late grandfather started to come up (I hadn't been able to be there when he died) and I was able to just sit silently (and in tears) and have this huge internal dialogue with this empty chair that I would never actually have been able to have with my grandfather in person. It was the start of a lot of changes for me including finally dealing with all the stuff I'd been carrying around from the loss of a child through a miscarriage nearly 20 years ago - it was horrible but a huge cloud was lifted from 2 lives and we both desperately needed it. Still got a long way to go, but I've come a long way in 2 years. There is hope and things can and do get better. Trust your intuition and instinct and try to enjoy the journey, I'll be thinking of you.
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