tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post9165120531925687721..comments2024-03-18T20:41:39.140-07:00Comments on C. E. Chaffin's Blog: Depressive Recidivism; Sonnet, "Mastering Melancholy"C. E. Chaffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639448512282317750noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post-57925419067721275092006-10-24T01:21:00.000-07:002006-10-24T01:21:00.000-07:00I would say something...
but alas, haven't defeate...I would say something...<br />but alas, haven't defeated my own yet, so doubt I can offer anything to others.<br /><br />I just keep writing, it seems to take the edge off...<br /><br />though, it occassionally gets me down that i can't write very well... :\Inconsequentialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03543390380268105131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post-5287797124285553662006-10-23T17:03:00.000-07:002006-10-23T17:03:00.000-07:00You, too, Coral with your terrible global pain.
D...You, too, Coral with your terrible global pain.<br /><br />Dennis, so kind for a stranger to share so many encouraging words with me. I have been a high-functioning bipolar I for my entire life. And this dip I've fallen into, I'm sure I'll come out of it. I had ten pretty good years prior to my recent recurrence, but that recurrence is understandable in view of the stress I had gone through. Your poem was simple and bright. I, too, believe in love, but I am constitutionally incapable of feeling it when I am in a depression. Then life becomes an act of faith. I continue to act as I continue to write. Good to hear you've passed through to a better existence, and I will remember your three-legged stool.C. E. Chaffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02639448512282317750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post-73623173673717000582006-10-23T14:28:00.000-07:002006-10-23T14:28:00.000-07:00My experience with bi-polar disorder is limited to...My experience with bi-polar disorder is limited to having grown up in a home with a brother who had it from a very young age. He struggles to this day and is disabled. His disease frightens me. Myself, I’ve struggled with addiction and depression for as long as I can remember. I know the pain of a relentless mind – particularly one that would like to see you dead. I’m forty and have been in therapy longer than I haven’t. If I could kill my ego I would – dead a thousand ways. <br /><br />Over the last few years I’ve stumbled onto something. Suddenly, I’m growing wings. I’m in a process of transformation and I’m healing. And it all started the minute I got out of my own head. Sometimes we’re too smart for our own good – literally. Out of my head and into my heart. <br /><br />I see consciousness like a three-legged stool. The first leg is being in “the adult” the second leg is being in the stream of love and the third is being gentle with yourself. Anytime my world seems off, I can trace it back to a missing or wobbly leg. <br /><br />I don’t care how dark the night may seem I am absolutely certain that you are loved, in spite of anything you can imagine. I know this because there is no doubt in my mind any longer that I am loved, and I can think of no greater wretch than myself. When I was at my worst, no one was more lost and alone and unplugged from Source as me.<br /><br />Along with all else that you are trying to accomplish, try love.<br /><br />I wrote a poem on Saturday that you might find comforting. Its called <a href="http://journeytoforgiveness.blogspot.com/2006/10/poetry-thursday-just-you.html">Just You</a><br /><br />Dennis --Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post-70506784151793630512006-10-23T14:17:00.000-07:002006-10-23T14:17:00.000-07:00Dear Craig Erick,
Be strong. Have faith.
I jus...Dear Craig Erick,<br /><br />Be strong. Have faith. <br /><br />I just sent an email. I hope you don't mind.<br /><br />OMG - Just look at that !!! The word verification says: daftu.<br />And I have to type that? Maybe that description of yourself is daft?<br /><br />What's the boonies?<br /><br />Love,<br />CoralCoralPoetryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11562277129959477435noreply@blogger.com