"How many scars did you justify because you loved the person who was holding the knife?"
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Frédéric Chopin, from a letter to Tytus Woyciechowski wr. c. December 1831
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O quam mirabilis est inspiratio que hominem sic suscitavit.
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Miles Johnston: Melancholia (2022)
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It seems to me that much of the misery we call and treat as depression today could be understood as melancholia. We may be experiencing a sense of melancholia in response to what we have lost in terms of the conversation surrounding our inner lives. Run by the pharmaceutical industry and insurance companies, most mental health treatment in the U.S. consists of short sessions of often short-term, often cognitive therapy and medication with the precise goal of returning the patient to efficient productivity. We have lost holistic treatment, and instead focus on managing the patient’s symptoms rather than finding their causes. [...] These messages that we are unfit, that our symptoms need to be eradicated rather than listened to, inform our emotional and psychic life — they contribute to our depression.
Cynthia Cruz, Disquieting
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Virginia Woolf, from "Jacob's Room"
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“It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know.”
(Perec, A Man Asleep, tr. A. Leak)
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