Posted by Shame on May 2, 2005, at 15:00:29
I think there are only so many ways to describe how depression feels... without sounding crazy that is. I'm not sure my descriptions even make sense to the people that are going through the same thing I am. Telling someone that your depression is like a physical thing inside your body and that it has "edges" that you can feel, just makes people think you need a CAT scan. The fact that the word 'grief' does no justice to what we feel is lost on the public at large. We use the same language to describe our illness that they might use to define a bad day or an off mood.For those of us that can muster the energy, we relay our situation through writing, art, or song. Still, the normals consume the fruits of our labors and frame it in their own context, the intent of the piece lost on a mind that has never know sickness. The pieces that are too shocking for them to assimilate are discarded as the rantings of someone too crazy to attempt to empathize with. Maybe we are.
So the world will never understand. Even most psychiatrists only know what their patients tell them and what they read in the DSM-IV. Knowing and being are two different things, and the difference between them is profound.
Our thin lexicon stands, unable to relay our situation to the world in any meaningful way.
Is grieficide a word?
poster:Shame
thread:492758
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