Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Expanded Space

Kim’s comment on my mental illness and cholesterol windows post got me thinking. There is something significant that happens I think when you read someone’s words that seem to capture your own experience with such clarity. It loosens some of the weight, the oppressive heaviness that pushes in on every side. The experience of depression is like a compression in on yourself, dense like a black hole. When you hear someone else describe your experience, it’s almost like the space of your heaviness expands, you realize the room is larger than you thought, that it encompasses more than just yourself. The inward suction is disrupted by an awareness of someone outside yourself but within your same world.  

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