Posted by Economist on April 18, 2010, at 16:54:57
In reply to Re: Is this only on line or in todays paper?, posted by conundrum on April 18, 2010, at 15:20:54
>>> Despite Hsiungs caution and control, weird threads pop up all the time, including, not long ago, one about how to love your family more -- through a pill. After voicing a traditional complaint -- Why am I not sad when I should be sad? -- the original poster lurches into clinical language. My grandmom is in the intensive-care unit of the hospital. . . . I dont feel the need to cry. . . . I am interested in hyderzine and deprenyl. <<<
Arg. That paragraph still aggravates me. It's not that we anhedonics don't KNOW how to love our families. It's that we simply CAN'T feel love anymore and we want this feeling back like hell. I can't even begin to describe the anguish that envelops me after seeing and hugging the people I grew up with and not being able to feel any warmth inside. I never deserved this curse. I am tortured every time I see them.
If Ms. Virginia Heffernan finds it so "weird" that we would desperately turn to medications for help in regaining emotions, I would like to know what other suggestions she could possibly offer.
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