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"Clinical Depression"

“CLINICAL DEPRESSION” You try desperately to cling to a familiar happier past but the hopeless future Is all that you can see through the tunnel of your vision. The black demon Misery tears from your soul all that is light and happiness. It is then you feel the full Measure of your emptiness bearing down upon you, as the overwhelming sadness of This world assaults your senses. The dawn brings a black flower of despair that blooms quickly and drinks in your fading sanity; you are left as though dead, Staring into an abyss, that drains all energy and motivation. Though you ache For it, no comfort or reprieve is found; you are helpless to defeat even the gravity which holds you to your bed, now you’re only world. Friends and loved ones Beseech you, “pull yourself together” and “it can’t be that bad”. Nevertheless, even Well-meaning love and compassion cannot penetrate the darkness that envelops. Finally, as you feel the rope tighten… So deadly, so treatable. Learn the early signs and get help.
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tony-beldin-1
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Apr 3, 2012
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