Depression is something a bunch of us are going through, or will go through. There are varying degrees of
depression, ranging from just a perpetual
sadness to severe, debilitating clinical depression. I have also included information on
bipolar disorder, or
manic depression if you will, since it’s on the same branch of
psychology. Whichever it is, you will probably benefit from eating up as much knowledge about it as you can.
Depression pushes you against surfaces, and adds heaviness either atom by atom or all at once until the strain of this motion dominates all else. It is one-pointed, claustrophobic, and circular. It doubts, denies, and questions everything that comes in contact with it.
I offer you all the nodes ever written about depression. Enjoy your meal.
Personal experiences with depression:
Other people’s opinions about depression:
The facts:
Medications and treatment:
Helpful information and advice:
Literature, and writers who suffer from depression:
- Sylvia Plath, poet - feminine, death
- J.D. Salinger - angry, rebel
- Anne Sexton, poet - moody, visceral
- ’Prozac Nation’, by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Anything by Ayn Rand is sure to make you hate, hate, hate.
- Samuel Beckett - repetitive, absurd
- Raymond Carver - gritty, dark, and rough
- Rainer Maria Rilke, contemplative and sublime poet
- Nick Hornby, agitated and charming novelist
- Eugene O'Neill, intense and intimate playwright
- Natsume Soseki, sardonic and lyrical novelist
- Kurt Vonnegut - witty, anxious
- Edgar Allen Poe - violent, dark
- Franz Kafka - alienated, dystopic, dreamy
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - psychological, manic
- T.S. Eliot, poet - death, elegant
- Ernest Hemingway - tense, rough
Depressing Music:
- sitting alone in a big house and listening to depressing music
- Pink Floyd’s ’The Wall’
- The Cure - quirky, melancholy
- Radiohead - voluminous, lush, moody
- Tool - genius, beautiful, angry, transcendent
- A Perfect Circle - the 'other' side of tool - romantic, feminine, emotive rather than logical. Intuitive rather than mathematical.
- Fiona Apple - anorexic, attitude, sullen, vacant
- nirvana - grunge, antidote, suicidal
- Nine Inch Nails - angsty, personal
- Portishead - lonely, haunting
- Jeff Buckley - sorrow, emotion, grace
- The Verve - pop, tragic
- Leonard Cohen
- Velvet Underground - agitated, fuzzy
Depressing Films and Directors
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