How do you deal with depression when you're out of touch with your emotions?
July 18, 2020 at 5:23 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2020 at 5:29 pm by Porcupine.)
How do you go about dealing with depression when you're out of touch with your emotions?
When medication doesn't work?
When therapy doesn't help?
When you don't know what it means to feel depressed. When you're alexithymic. When you have anhedonia and emptiness and a very intense intellectual sense that there is a 'a deep hole in your soul' that saps you of all motivation for almost everything in life and makes you unfit to do almost anything besides eat and sleep (and you also have too much or not enough of both of them)?
What do you do when you seem to have all the symptoms of depression besides suicidality, self harm and an intense feeling of sadness or frustration? What do you do when you are simply just sapped of all get-up-and-go for life, just an intense lack of mental and physical energy ... that is extremely debilitating and nothing seems to help?
And what do you do when you seem to have also lost the ability to feel pleasure? And when you keep seeking pleasure and entertainment but can't remember the last time when you found any by yourself---and you are stuck being alone?
And what do you do when your GP doesn't have anything to offer either?
When medication doesn't work?
When therapy doesn't help?
When you don't know what it means to feel depressed. When you're alexithymic. When you have anhedonia and emptiness and a very intense intellectual sense that there is a 'a deep hole in your soul' that saps you of all motivation for almost everything in life and makes you unfit to do almost anything besides eat and sleep (and you also have too much or not enough of both of them)?
What do you do when you seem to have all the symptoms of depression besides suicidality, self harm and an intense feeling of sadness or frustration? What do you do when you are simply just sapped of all get-up-and-go for life, just an intense lack of mental and physical energy ... that is extremely debilitating and nothing seems to help?
And what do you do when you seem to have also lost the ability to feel pleasure? And when you keep seeking pleasure and entertainment but can't remember the last time when you found any by yourself---and you are stuck being alone?
And what do you do when your GP doesn't have anything to offer either?
"Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts
