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Chapter 13 - Depression  
     
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 Depression is darkness.  
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 Depression is universal grey.  
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 Depression is emptiness.  
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 Depression is hopelessness.  
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 Depression is absolute rejection.
 
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 In the glimmer of a flickering light, or the tick of a solitary clock, we find ourselves alone.
  
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 Nothing surrounding can fill this emptiness, or longing.
  
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 For loneliness knows no rank nor wealth.
  
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 As much as we heap upon ourselves, or the more these feelings of alone.
  
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 It pierces the painted smile, the shell we use to greet the world
  
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 It shatters the chatter of busy days
  
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 Of more and more
  
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 For it is the very feeling of less, that hurts.
  
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 It hurts to be alone. Nakedness to the world. For all the furs and all the walls, it chills us still.
  
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 It knows no boundaries nor sacred ground For loneliness stalks us, even though we move away.
  
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 No matter how far we travel, it sneaks back into our chest
  
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 It saps us of our strength  
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 It drains the very essence to continue This most awful of feelings.
  
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 It slows us to stone, immovable, paralysis.
 
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 To lay down and hope for some escape.
  
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 It is cold being alone Vulnerable to the world. All the protections of life and all the guards and it kills our heart.
  
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 For surely there is no other hell like loneliness.
 
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 There is no hell more savage than life without hope.
 
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 So here we find ourselves in our darkest moment Laid bare to the world.
  
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 Depression is hell of mind.
  
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 Depression is a state of hellish mind.
  
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 A state of dreadful delusion is depression.
  
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 For depression is a fixation on past events affecting the present.
  
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 The past is the past.  
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 The anchor of depression.  
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 The rock upon which depression is built.  
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 Without a mind filled of dread, of guilt, of sadness of the past, one cannot be in depression.  
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 Depression is viewing the present and the future through a twisted prism of the past.  
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 Only in letting the past go, in resigning the past to history can one address depression.  
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 It must be let go.  
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 Only in the present, free of the past can things change.
  
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 The primary VIR of loving yourself.
 
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 Your are more.  
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 You are special.  
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 Your life has reason and purpose.
 
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 Only in motion is that purpose fulfilled.  
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 Only in being all you can be is your purpose truly realized.
  

 
 
 

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