Melancholia

"Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe"


(I am standing with one foot in the grave),

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Happy or Sad - How do you react?


"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”  
Virginia Woolf in Orlando, published on October 11, 1928
Song: “Both Sides Now” by Joni Mitchell


Manic depressives like Robin Williams supposedly don't want to die but just want the pain to end.

Socially, we seem to have accepted this situatioin as requiring our understanding and not our scorn.

Yet if a person turned to alcohol to end their pain,  it would likely be seen as weakness and vice.  Why?
listen to his hours of stand up comedy about his days of addiction before entering the treatment merry-go-round.



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