I was struck by the unwitting arrogance of the doctors who talked about being contaminated by their patients' despair and of giving their patients hope. Having been suicidally depressed, I've...
I was struck by the unwitting arrogance of the doctors who talked about being contaminated by their patients' despair and of giving their patients hope.
Having been suicidally depressed, I've found that people who haven't ever been profoundly depressed have no notion of how heavy a burden their hope is to somebody who is depressed. To have somebody try to give me hope, to give me their reason to go on living when I cannot find my own, this is an unforgivable imposition.
I was struck by the unwitting arrogance of the doctors who talked about being contaminated by their patients' despair and of giving their patients hope.
Having been suicidally depressed, I've found that people who haven't ever been profoundly depressed have no notion of how heavy a burden their hope is to somebody who is depressed. To have somebody try to give me hope, to give me their reason to go on living when I cannot find my own, this is an unforgivable imposition.