Venus, after reading through this I've gone through a bunch of different feelings about the thread as a whole. First I was angry, not VERY angry mind you but a bit hurt-angry, if that makes any sense. Then I thought about it for a second. I have been through some of this before, where people will say you've been depressed "use it!". Use the feelings to create artistic expression or whatever.

But to me, honestly it's not depression that creates any depth. Depression takes EVERYTHING away, at least for me. It takes AWAY creativity, it takes away the ability to think. I can't see anything positive that comes from depression specifically.

I CAN see how working through suffering can be turned in a positive way. This is a well documented fact... that we learn through adversity, and sometimes we gain more from suffering than through happiness.



So I do see where you're coming from.

My question to you is, what brought you to post this? Do you feel connected to your depression? If so does this connection confuse you, or are you looking to see what others think about it, or if anyone else has felt this way? Does feeling that depression can be positive in some way make you feel better about having to deal with it?

In a weird way you're almost fighting depression with "well if I'm stuck with it I'm going to make the best of it" and that's good. For what it's worth I've felt connected to it too sometimes. I DO NOT like this, but it has made me who I am for better or for worse.


Enough rambling. Hope you don't mind a long reply - depression makes me not think or write as clearly