Re: sympathy and empathy - exactly! but some people will not be swayed from their precious misery.

Posted by John DiFool (4w5) on May 15, 1998 at 20:53:12:

In Reply to: sympathy and empathy - exactly! but some people will not be swayed from their precious misery. posted by Derf on May 15, 1998 at 19:32:43:

At the risk of being engulfed in this burgeoning flame war, I just want to
say that, in a sense, Derf is right-we all have free will after all
(brain chemicals be damned), and if we wish to be depressed, we will be.
I remember long nights wallowing in self-pity-and ya know, in a way, I
actually ENJOYED it in some perverse fashion. At least I was feeling
SOMETHING (even if it wasn't the blissful union with the girl I was
obsessed with and so desperately craved-and of course my feelings for
her were one of the major contributing factors...).

But, the clincher is that depressed people don't know that they have OTHER
choices-me, I felt trapped within a hopeless situation (=my life) which
seemed to offer no escape. Little did I know that there most certainly was
an alternative! Thanks be to God/Goddess/Nature and all that for showing
me that I did have a choice...

John DiFool

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