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At 02:36 PM 2000/07/01 -0700, Carole Hercun <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Dear janet: Unfortunately, I did not know Paige Bremer I >think she would have been one of my heroes, too. You are so >eloquent I don't know if what I'm going to say is >superfluous, but here goes- >What makes Clinical Depression worse than PD: >Is the anhedonic, utterly joyless existence it imposes upon >its victims. Its all about loss. The world loses its color, >food its taste, friends and family their ability to comfort >us, lovers their ability to touch us. >Is the way it has of creeping into our heads and whispering >to us that we are all alone, that there is no hope and no >cure and that death is the only answer to the blackness >inside and out. >Is the way people can't "see" it, so they can't understand >it. Healthy people are skeptical of this kind of invisible >disease. They often view it as a "mental" illness, somehow >shameful, or a sham, characterized by laziness or a lack of >character. Those afflicted with CD can't understand how the >lack of neuro-transmitters in the brain can cause such >devastation. They become convinced that they are losing >theirs minds and lose their heart and their will to go on. >I had one young client tell he knew that "brain chemicals" >could never be this powerful and that he was afraid that >the "demons" living in his brain could never be quieted >with a mere pill. >Is the ones I have known who have become lost and forfeited >their lives: >The 33 year old woman who walked into on-going traffic one >rainy night on I-95. >The 14 year old boy who laid down on the railroad tracks in >front of a train. >The middle-aged woman who jumped from the 6th floor of the >mall to the lobby below. >The single woman who cut herself 400 times with a box >cutter before she laid down to die. >Is the fact that Clinical Depression is: > A DISEASE > CURABLE > CONTINUES TO KILL carole eloquence is as eloquence does! maybe imagining one's will to live or one's zest for life as being 'vulnerable' to small changes in brain chemistry is a frightening thought to some - a threat of loss of control maybe however i think the idea of people dying in pain due to being un-diagnosed and un-treated for a CURABLE illness far more frightening jp janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx / 37 onset 613 256 8340 / PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada visit my website "a new voice" at: "http://www.geocities.com/janet313/"