“Depressed and Sad are two very powerful, similar, misappropriated words. Portal words. And if we look more closely at them, we can claim what’s true for ourselves and set about transforming depression and sadness into their contrasting states. When you’re sad, you’re feeling. Sometimes, more than you want to. You wish you could be despondent, but the sadness is sharp and it bleeds your attention from you. Depression — a term our med-happy nation uses much too glibly — dulls one’s feelings.
Where sadness makes you feel raw and skinless, depression is like wearing a snow suit and mittens and wondering why you can’t feel the caress of life. Depression may be the cousin of sadness, sometimes the defended response to unyielding sadness, but it makes you feel anything but alive. It dulls, weighs, and messes with your memory of your true essential nature…which is that of joy. When you respect the difference, you’re closer to the cure.” - Danielle LaPorte
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