Bitter Berries

[sherbetsaucers]

Over the last few months I've been fortunate enough to attend a workshop entitle Poetry as Healing. Lead by Chris Tutton, I'm still trying to fully digest what I thought of them and how useful they were to me

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[pmp]

I feel that depression occurs because we don't want to acknowledge or express our negative emotions such as anger, jealousy, resentment and so on. Without a release for the stress, it reaches a point where we just shut down from outside stimuli.

There is a grain of truth in the idea that being active and social helps prevent us from being overwhelmed.