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Our culture has alot of values that are kind of screwy. I had a girl friend once who suffered from depression and she had her tubes tied because she said there was no way she was having a kid with a depressed mom.
I am reading a book and I am kind of on this kick about how our culture does not value suffering. You are expected to be happy all the time and if you are not you are expected to snap out of it, do something to fix it. Our culture does not value or embrace or ennoble suffering for its own sake. Many people suffer and can do nothing to change it. I was thinking of starting a post on it.
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." -- Richard Feynman
Major Depressive Disorder
Anxiety Disorder with some paranoid delusions thrown in for fun.
Recovering Alcoholic and Addict
Possibly on low end of bi polar spectrum...trying to decide.
Male, 50
Fetzima 80mg
Lamictal 100mg
Remeron 30mg for sleep
Klonopin .5mg twice a day, cutting this back
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