saturday sighs

[dearprudence]

still fighting depression. i'm working out old issues of sabotaging my success. why do we do such things to ourselves? in a conversation with my daughter 10 or so days ago, she told me about an opportunity to do research and present her findings at a national conference in new orleans. she said that she was terrified. that she'd had a similar

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[chaosassemblage]

My X and I were talking about depression the other day, she is going through some chronic depression for the first time in her life. I told her this, everyone in life wants friends and lovers who are passionate, yet we look down upon those who have mood swings and tendencies toward depression. This is hypocritical to me... people who don't have mood swings are not passionate. Don't beet yourself up so much, your just passionate.

~Michael

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[dearprudence]

omg thank you so much...on some level i know this, but i never think about that aspect when i'm boxing with myself.