We live, however, in a time of increasing palliatives it is easier than ever to decide what to feel and what not toįeel. In the next world cannot help experiencing anguish in this one Christ himself was the man of sorrows. Even those people whose faith promises them that this will all be different We are angry about being ripped from the comfortable womb, and as soon as that anger fades, distress comes to take its place. Pain is the first experience of world-helplessness, and it Life is fraught with sorrows: no matter what we do, we will in the end die we are, each of us, held in the solitude of an autonomous body time passes, and what has been will never be again. The only feeling left in this loveless state is insignificance. The meaninglessness of every enterprise and every emotion, the meaninglessness of life itself, becomes self-evident. Love forsakes us from time to time, and we forsake love. Some love others and some love work and some love God: any of these passions can furnish that vital sense of purpose that is the opposite of depression. In good spirits, some love themselves and Medications and psychotherapy can renew that protection, making it easier to love and be loved, and that is why they work. Is what cushions the mind and protects it from itself. Love, though it is no prophylactic against depression, It is the aloneness within us made manifest, and it destroys not only connection to others but also the ability to be peacefully alone with oneself. When it comes, it degrades one's self and ultimately eclipses the capacity to give or To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
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