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Re: JigSaws and amputation » Fred Potter

Posted by Wendy B on April 11, 2001, at 8:59:14

In reply to JigSaws and amputation, posted by Fred Potter on April 9, 2001, at 18:15:26

> Thanks everyone for your help (and Mila)

(...)

> Why don’t we band together and collect a set of vivid descriptions of how we, the depressed and anxious, feel? If you have any delicious descriptions I would love to hear from you
>
> If you have been, thanks for reading this.
>
> Fred

Hi Fred,
Therre are some amazing descriptions of what it's like to be depressed/anxious/manic in Kay Redfield Jamison's book "Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament." Most of them written by poeats and writers, people who have real mastery over their expression. It's sometimes so difficult to read though ('that's me!'), I can get to crying...

(Sylvia Plath):
"I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.
It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.
It made me tired just to think of it.
I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it."

Take THAT book to the doctor's!

All the best - Wendy


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