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Old Feb 07, 2012, 06:20 AM
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Originally Posted by VenusHalley View Post
... One is not even sure if they are alive still...
Yes. It's really hard to describe and impossible to convey, but... it's kind of like being trapped in another dimension. But no sense of being able to go across let alone having a will to do so. I've even had the perception of not having a face and seeing myself (from outside myself) looking out from a skull. For those keeping score, that's 3 times removed. And having no reaction to my not being there, no reaction to seeing this image, no reaction to being outside. Or? Am I looking from it? At it? ("It" because there's no sense that it's me or even alive.) Both? Neither? I can't tell, and it doesn't occur to me to care. (I don't think this at the time, I don't think anything, don't feel anything, I just see it as a visual entity. Just trying to describe it. Keep in mind that this is only one slice of the reality.) One would be horrified if they could. Suspended animation and no scream.

Having had many depressions of both sorts, they both suck. That said, I only go catatonic/leaden paralysis in these kind. If I were able to sense it, I'd probably realize that I'd pretty well kill to have been able to cry. Hell, sometimes even to move in any way even approaching normal. It is not always this extreme, but trust me, it sucks at lesser degrees as well.

I wish it were like tired, then I would simply sleep. In trying to understand it, it's well to not confuse it with "neutral", in a not-one-way or another sort of way, just "whatever", where one might go out and mow the lawn. It's not like that at all.
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