Date:         Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:07:39 +1000
From: Ria Strong <tapestry@NETLINK.COM.AU>
Subject:      From the inside: depression
 
>DEPRESSION IN FIVE WORDS...
>
>overwhelmed
>desperate
>alone
>terrified
>helpless
>
>disconnectedness
>meaninglessness
>emptiness
>numb
>paranoid
>
>mud
>blood
>ugly
>empty
>thoughts
>
>exhausting
>isolating
>painful
>unpredictable
>hell
>
>trapped
>lost
>isolated
>void
>self-loathing
>
>tired
>dead
>miserable
>empty
>dysfunctional
>
>apathy
>emptiness
>unfocused
>withdrawn
>immobile
>
> frozen
>paralysed
>hurt
>hateful
>dead
>
>paranoid
>empty
>hypersensitive
>miserable
>alone
>
>sinking
>drowning
>worthless
>weak
>pain
>
>sadness
>gloom
>despondency
>downheartedness
>darkness
>
>bleak
>grey
>dismal
>congested
>misery
>
>shell
>bone
>skin
>eyes
>tears
>
>unstable
>bleak
>pathetic
>pain
>sucks
>
>sickness
>madness
>emptiness
>worthlessness
>suicide
>
>numbing
>frustrating
>isolating
>worthlessness
>suicidal
>
>isolated
>empty
>disconnected
>tired
>dark
>
>scared
>abandoned
>deprived
>alone
>helpless
>
>struggling
>kicking
>sinking
>rising
>trying
>
>damn
>fuck
>shit
>piss
>hell
>
>pain
>fear
>lonely
>unsafe
>unpredictable
>
>aloneness
>black
>pain
>emptiness
>apathy
>
>hopeless
>overwhelmed
>self hatred
>negative
>
>paradoxical anhedonia
>and pain,
>disconnection
>
>Passionless
>Hegira (aka "run away")
>Unwanted
>Charlaton (my first pshrink)
>Kaput
>!
>(Put them all together, they spell "PHUCK"
>A word that sometimes says it all)
>
>dark void of nothing
>kick, kick the wound, with no mercy
>asylum of solitude
>constant paranoia
>unquestioned hopelessness
>
>dark, hopeless, intense hatred of life.
>
>too much and too little
>
>[I am] an evil person
>
>alone in the dark
>
>NEAR DEATH Experience
>
>noone can hear you scream
>
>cancer of the soul
>
>Deleted Existence
>Acknowledging Tangible Hell
>(= DEATH)
 
 
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        Ria Strong (tapestry@netlink.com.au)
      "You can't stop the birds from singing..."
 
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