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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (104034)	5/14/2005 2:25:18 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

thanks, E. i just sent that on to a friend who is going through a severe depression. really good article.

To: E who wrote (104034)	5/14/2005 2:25:34 PM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I love Stryon as a writer. Also some of the other's mentioned in this article. This article made me think of Sylvia Plath. She probably had the same disease as Stryon..etc..and the others. Thank you for posting this.

To: E who wrote (104034)	5/14/2005 2:43:30 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I thought the article was very poignant when Scialabba discussed how black his world is. I suspect that most people who struggle occasionally with brief, periodic depressed periods have trouble understanding how the true, chronically depressed feel. I wanted to kick him! I couldn't understand why he couldn't somehow find some nice friends to spend time with, somehow motivate himself to take a walk every day, and find a good doctor who could work with him on finding medications that might alleviate some of his psychic pain. I thought it would do him a lot of good to volunteer with people less fortunate, to put his relatively good life in perspective. At the same time I was aware that these are all the ideas people who aren't truly depressed have for those who are. I suspect the kind of depression he has is like I felt briefly right after I had my baby. Totally overwhelming! I felt like I was in a plastic bubble, seeing the world around me but absolutely disconnected from the people in it. I should have been wonderfully happy, because being a mother was what I wanted more than anything. And yet I was totally immobilized. I realized on some level that hormones were controlling me, and thank goodness my system got back into balance in a couple of weeks and everything turned out all right. But I do understand from that brief period how severe depression can take over someone's life. I didn't really understand how more money would have made a difference (even though I agree politically with the rich paying more and the poor paying less taxes). Some very rich people who have everything commit suicide because of depression. Studies have shown that once basic needs are met, the rich are really no happier than the middle class. Of course, for this writer, finding good therapy would have to be considered as part of his basic needs. My sister-in-law in Northern Ireland has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals dealing with depression--she was severely abused by her mother when she was little, and even though she has a very good and comfortable life and a supportive husband and children, she somehow cannot recover. In Northern Ireland, though, all of that treatment is part of the national health coverage. It is really too bad that a wealthy nation like America cannot offer basic mental health coverage as well.