Posted by Morose on December 14, 1999, at 11:50:19
In reply to Re: apology for the previous apology, posted by allison on December 14, 1999, at 8:19:47
> Interesting. I guess I don't see conversation in that way at all. The contact sports I can think of generally have winners and losers and quite often involve aggression. Those things often are not conducive to a healthy and open exchange of ideas.
Something tells me that you hold your own in any kind of conversation.
> If I may ask a more personal question, if drugs have solved your problems and you're happy now than you've ever been, why do you call yourself Morose?
>
It would be my pleasure to answer a more personal question, but I will presume permission to ask you one in return.I didn't devote any thought to my nom de Psychobabble other than wanting to connote that my deal is depression rather than one of the other afflictions that get discussed here. For years I thought of recurring depression as a character problem I could think my way out of. Today, instead, I think of a vulnerability to depression as a permanent feature of my temperament that will require medication from time to time. I am a recovering depressive, if you will, so to that extent I am Morose.
Question: how in the hell do you expect to ever get well reading things like Oblivion and King Lear?
Best regards,
Morose
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