Posted by shelliR on September 12, 2001, at 14:49:16
In reply to Re: I'm terribly saddened - a UK response, posted by sweetmarie on September 12, 2001, at 5:59:33
> This is awful. It`s completely beyond my comprehension. ......
> My depression has taken a complete nose-dive - it was rocky already, but this has tipped me over. We ALL need to know that it`s O.K. to feel deeply about what has happened, and those of us who are suffering from depression will be really feeling it badly. It`s grief, and a totally natural feeling.Anna, I am so glad that you wrote what you did. I have also plummeted from depression into deep suicidal depression since yesterday. I saw my pdoc today and we talked about possible hospitalization. It never occurred to me how my depression was affected by yesterday's tragedy until I came home and read some of the posts and felt sickened by the debates and analysis. I am way too entrenched in grief to not be offended by purely analytical thinking and any mention of justification by the Palestinians, even if politically I have been in partial agreement with those views.
Then I went back and reread your post and realized that of course, this is why I have been so severely depressed since yesterday afternoon. It was an out-of my-direct life-crisis that toppled right on top of my depression. Your post gave me amazing perspective and it seems strange that my pdoc did not at all ask if my sudden plunge was at all related to our national disaster. In not understanding my depression, I was also dumping on myself for it's self-centeredness.
Anyway, thanks so much; your post, I think, will make my sudden dive less scarey to me.
Shelli
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