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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (29924)	6/25/1999 11:56:00 AM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

Sorry. I was up a little late last night. It was an iteration of, a call and respond, to your post, Message 10268176 which got my attention. Don't normally hear that kind of.....hmmm. Understanding? No..... A person has either to have been there, or have powers of empathy and comprehension in a higher degree. Many serious depressions don't get quite that far; and as you said, a lot of the ones that do are fatal. Depression is an extremely difficult thing to get the non-depressed to understand. I know, too, because I didn't. And I had a very depressed buddy living with me for months. He lived, but, I think barely. I couldn't "get it." I've see doctors who don't. It is perhaps in need of a re-naming more truthfully representative. (?) Dresden, maybe; before and after. I know one does not consciously choose to go there, because you would be aware of the decision ahead of time, which is impossible. It's like having taken peyote, and not. You can tell people what it's like, but..... And your perception there was perfect. Imho. It IS about KNOWING all this is bullshit. Seeing the orchestra. It's not about failed perception, it's about perception itself. Hoo doggies, watch out. Alice falls in the hole. Homer, Simpson, in 3D. Music: "Shove me in the shal-low water; before I get too deep." You get into the deep end in depression, and you find out you don't swim.