When someone says they're “depressed,” they can be referring to a one-day dispiritedness. Or even something lighter: “I'm depressed the Giants lost.” Or: “It's depressing it's raining.” Or, more seriously: “He's depressed his wife left him.” But at its worst, at its most profound, depression is crushing. A weight that can only barely be borne. I think “depression” should have one meaning, and one meaning only, like
Thank you, Richard. This really touched me. I remember that feeling. Having felt it once, it's hard not to live in fear of feeling it again. I live now not to avoid its return, because I'm not sure I have control over that, but to know, or at least to feel relatively confident, that were it to return, it could be bared, maybe even harnessed, and moved through.
Hello Richard, I hope you are not in that dark place now or will never return to it again. I have felt what you have described, but, thankfully, for only hours or a day. The heaviness is indescribable. And, there is some panic to escape it.
This is an important message. Your description is spot on and accurate. Good words of advice, too.
Thank you, Richard. This really touched me. I remember that feeling. Having felt it once, it's hard not to live in fear of feeling it again. I live now not to avoid its return, because I'm not sure I have control over that, but to know, or at least to feel relatively confident, that were it to return, it could be bared, maybe even harnessed, and moved through.
Hard to do better than Milton.
Richard, Thank you for a truthful essay about an important and, sadly, sometimes tragic illness. Ken
Hello Richard, I hope you are not in that dark place now or will never return to it again. I have felt what you have described, but, thankfully, for only hours or a day. The heaviness is indescribable. And, there is some panic to escape it.