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Thursday, July 24. 2014

Blackness Ever Blackening: My Lifetime of Depression.

Confessionals like this one can sometimes help those people blessed with sunny dispositions to have some understanding of those unfortunates without such dispositions.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 15:10 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Depression is real. It is as tangible as steel if you suffer from it. It is an unbearable sensation of desperation and awfulness. There are drugs that can make it go away. If you suffer, try them. Balance your humors. Life is a whole lot better that way. Better living through chemistry, as they say.

If you have never had the black plague of depression you are a lucky soul and it is understandable that you don't understand.

The Lord must love depressives. He made so many of them.

#1 matterovermind on 2014-07-24 15:52 (Reply)

Of course, matterovermind is mostly correct. On the other hand, if you can manage to keep the suicidal thoughts at bay, depression can be a useful state of mind. For instance, depression gives you a different, but equally valid, perspective of the world. Just because it is dark and dreary doesn't make it useless or uninstructive. Most of our reality should probably be viewed through a glass darkly, to be observed accurately. Plus, depression can open up new paths for your creativity. It is wonderful for deep, tortured and extended self examination. Writers depend on it. Painters live on it. Poets can't exist without it. I can't say I'm in favor of clinical, chronic depression. But, I can say it is a required part of the balance. Extreme depression is to be avoided. Suicide is messy and sort of final. Which, as mentioned above, is where pills and therapy come in handy.

#2 W. C. Taqiyya on 2014-07-24 16:37 (Reply)

Yes, "controlled depression" can be of great value.

#2.1 Dr. B. on 2014-07-24 17:42 (Reply)

In fact, psychoanalytic psychotherapy often must induce some controlled depression to address suppressed issues.

#2.1.1 Dr. B. on 2014-07-24 17:46 (Reply)

Controlled depression? Man, you've never been clinically depressed, have you? There is no control. It is a totally bleak existence painted in sparrow gray and jet black.

It is on you like a wet cloak that you cannot shuck. It's hard to be creative when you don't want to get out of bed and thoughts of death dance merrily around in your head.

Depression gives one a distorted view of this sordid world. It robs one of their objectivity and replaces it with a subjectivity generated from the trough of a sine wave. Beauty is no longer possible.

#3 matterovermind on 2014-07-24 21:53 (Reply)

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