Posted by Declan on June 25, 2006, at 19:00:42
In reply to future anti-addiction pills? (NY Times), posted by pseudoname on June 25, 2006, at 10:10:13
I was wondering if it was Hole in the sole, but anyway...
From when I was very young I was always finding something to mourn over. A woman died a long slow death after a shark attack and I kept a very mournful vigil. On some Good Friday's I must have been a real pain. Then when a big tree got cut down I did it again. Then after doing drugs I got onto history, novels, films. Eastern Europe was good for this, C20 history, memoirs of survivors, Ingmar Bergman, gulags, holocausts, Kolyma, and of course Hitler and Stalin
Not surprising that there's a grab for a bit of pain relef in there. I don't know if I've been very happy being unhappy; it's certainly easier as you laugh your way to the looney bin, hating every moment.
On a psychological note, my T said I had a problem with ambivalence.
Declan
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