Posted by Declan on May 29, 2006, at 1:47:31
In reply to Psychobiology fear of being alone, posted by chiron on May 29, 2006, at 0:47:19
Dorothy Rowe in "Beyond Fear" and some other books puts up the idea that the central feeling in depression is a sense of isolation, varously felt as imprisonment. Here's a bit...
'All the images are different, but they have one common meaning. The person is alone and in some sort of prison. Images of unhappiness are grey and miserable, but they do not contain this sense of enclosure, and other people are present, or easily available, in them. Also images of unhappiness are often described in 'as if' terms, 'I feel as if I am walking along a rainswept street'. A depressed person will say that it is not 'as if' but 'is'. The sense of being depressed is experiencing a sense of isolation, of being utterly and completely alone'.This is not quite what you were talking about, hey? But it came to mind.
Declan
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