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Bobby2060
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PathStep 7 Compassion hearts56 Forum posts5 Forum upvotes16 Current upvotes16 Age GroupAdult Last activeSeptember, 2018 Member sinceDecember 29, 2015
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I'm a deep thinker and I wear my heart on my sleeve. Intellectuality and compassion are my forté. I'm here at 7 Cups to relate with peers having similar issues and to increase my emotional intelligence. The quest continues.
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How depression feels for me
Depression Support / by Bobby2060
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 August 10th, 2016
...See more "What I had begun to discover is that, mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from normal experience, the grey drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb. It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil trick played upon the sick brain by the inhabiting psyche, comes to resemble the diabolical discomfort of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. And because no breeze stirs this cauldron, because there is no escape from the smothering confinement, it is natural that the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion." -William Styron
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SUICIDE- NOT the easy way out, to them it seems the ONLY way out
Depression Support / by Bobby2060
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 January 1st, 2016
...See more Yes, it should be talked about and understood, NOT to make it OK, but to maybe help save that one tortured soul who would've potentially reached out, but then held back when the thought was still at it's infancy stages, due to the shame associated with it. It's easy to judge and say it was the easy way out and it was a selfish, cowardly act. It's NOT the easy way out, but to that person at that very moment, it feels like the ONLY way out, the only way to make the pain stop, that searing mental pain, like being stabbed with a knife that keeps twisting and twisting without any end in sight. If suicide is selfish because that person didn't think about the hurt it would cause to their loved ones, isn't it just as selfish for one to want THEIR loved one, who's life sems to be nothing but constant pain, to remain alive just for their sake? Once again, this is not to promote it, but to understand it. Understanding it may prevent it from ever happening before the thought matures to that stage in a person's mind in which they've already decided to do it. Here's a quote I like about the mindset of one contemplating suicide, the analogy is spot on.... The so-called ‘psychotically depressed person who tries to kill herself doesnt do so out of quote ‘hopelessness or any abstract conviction that lifes assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fires flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. Its not desiring the fall; its terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Dont! and ‘Hang on!, can understand the jump. Not really. Youd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling. -David Foster Wallace
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