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health advisory Hospital Mental Health 2007-11-15 19:02:28

But there is the lesson of time... and absorbing pain... I guess, too, I don't see the day-by-day and year-by-year depression as being that bad of an experience. An intense experience, a transforming experience, a sad experience, but not really bad.

Basically, I don't think sad experiences are bad.

When I was extremely depressed, I would just say that old saying from Reservoir Dogs, "You've been brave enough for one day."

Nothing really has to be accomplished. I don't feel that pressure that a life of depression is a failure so much. And it teaches you different things........ from... a normal type of life. Different perspective. It's a letting go of things...... it used to bother me, but now it really doesn't.

That you can just absorb a great deal of pain... and feel it and observe it... and experience another day of it. Strange, I guess. But I see a certain strength in the numbing quality of depression.

Of course, I am on medication and I do recommend medication... but in those moments where suicide is strong....... just I value absorbing the pain as a life experience. And the quietness of it.

You don't have to do anything to absorb the pain... you don't have to move. You just simply do it. It's quite remarkable really.

That probably doesn't convince anyone not to commit suicide... but it's what I've often thought.

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nothing worth living for is the same as nothing worth dying for/over. Life is what you make it. so make a decision to make it something else.

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