Depression is emotional constipation -- you grunt and you groan and you moan and nothing happens. Nothing changes. Your mind and your body both need to 'feel' and to 'do' and yet you are locked in an impasse -- a 'compromise-formation' between feeling and not feeling. It's like driving a car and having the gas on and the brake on at the same time. You go nowhere.
Similarily with depression, you just use up a lot of wasted energy moping around and/or walking around with a sour face -- with everything seemingly perpetually 'stuck in idle'. If grief is what you are feeling, then cry -- fully experience your grief in the here and now, with a friend or a counsellor if you need -- and then start to move 'forward' with your again. The more you feel and the more you do, the less you will feel emotionally constipated. The less you will feel 'depressed'.
There is a time when we all may need a little bit of a 'push' to get ourselves out of 'lethary', a 'dead end street', an 'emotionless and/or negative quagmire', an 'existential rut' or worse -- 'existential life-rot'...Call this a 'push'...towards more existential awareness, contact, meaning, and value...
-- dgb, May 25-26th, 2008.
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