ariel I just replied to your post in "general" in the topic "honoring survival" and I want to comment that what you said here is also very much included in the "Power of Myth". If you reread my original post there (the one that you responded to) you will see the similarities, maybe you already have, of the idea that deep within, the nature of everything, including ourselves, things like pain and depression have no meaning. Many of the creation stories in mythology follow this same idea and can be thought of as the creation of our human nature as well as the creation of the world and universe.

dreamer i hope this gives you some different ways to think about things and hopefully something will help get you on track for feeling better. We are here to offer support and offer choices... I think that people (not just depressed people) tend to not see some of the choices that are in front of them. In our case opportunities of hope, opportunities of treatment, and opportunities for the perspective that we need to cope.

-- The world is what we make of it --
-- Dave
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