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depression vs. sadness: the power of mincing words


“When you’re depressed, nothing matters. When you’re sad, everything does.” - Gloria Steinem, via @spiver, aka Susan Spiver, author of The Wisdom of a Broken Heart “So you’re feeling a sense of hopelessness,” the therapist said to me. “No, I’m feeling despair,” I clarified. “Same thing. You’re feeling hopeless,” she came back. “Nooo, I don’t...

how to be depressed


“Depression was, indeed, the hand of a friend trying to press me down to the ground on which it was safe to stand–the ground of my own truth, my own nature with its complex mix of limits and gifts, liabilities and assets, darkness and light.” - Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak I don’t think...