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Started by CASSforFreedom , Jul 09 2012 10:15 PM

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#1 CASSforFreedom

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 10:15 PM

Numb to everything.
When will it stop?

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#2 Epictetus

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 10:49 PM

Hi CASSforFreedom,

I'm sorry you are feeling numb to everything. I've had that experience more times than I care to remember. I am happy to listen to you and share insights. I've suffered from depression for 50+ years. If there is anything I can do to help, let me know.

Mental Illness is a serious health condition not to be trifled with. It requires treament by highly trained, experienced, qualified and Board-certified physicians, physician- specialists, and mental health professionals. There is no substitute for this professional care. I am not a mental health professional, only a fellow sufferer.

"A man is really ethical when he obeys the constraint laid on him to help all life which he is able to help, and when he goes out of his way to avoid injuring anything living. He does not ask how far this or that life deserves compassion as valuable in itself, how far it is capable of feeling. To him, life itself is sacred. He shatters no ice crystal that sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from its tree, breaks off no flower, and is careful not to crush any insect as he walks. If he works by lamplight on a summer evening, he prefers to keep the window shut and breathe stifling air rather than see insect after insect fall on his table with singed and sinking wings. If he goes out into the street after a rain storm and sees a worm which has strayed there, he reflects that it will surely dry up in the sunlight, if it does not quickly regain the damp soil into which it can creep, and so he helps it back to the lush grass. Should he pass an insect which has fallen into a pool, he spares the time to reach it a leaf or a stalk on which it may clamor and save itself. Animals suffer as much as we do. We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. " Dr. Albert Schweitzer.

"Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind." Dr. Albert Scheweiter.

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#3 CASSforFreedom

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 12:21 AM

50+ years? That in itself sounds depressing. I just hope it stops... I don't want this on and off my whole life. It feels like life is going by, and I'm missing everything behind this wall.

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#4 Trace

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 02:27 AM

Hi CassforFreedom

That is a long time. Do you suffer from anhedonia? Or are you on meds that make you feel this way?

Trace

Listen in deep silence. Be very still and open your mind.... Sink deep into the peace that waits for you beyond the frantic, riotous thoughts and sights and sounds of this insane world. - A course of miracles.

True beauty must come, must be grown, from within.... - Ralph W Trine.