Posts Tagged ‘melancholy’

Dreams in the Castle of Melancholy

Written by John on August 3rd, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by xip at Flickr I wrote recently here about masking emotions from myself as I grew up through my college years. Here’s what happened to change that, or at least start me on a different path. As often happens with me, it started in a dream: For so long, I lived in [...]

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Tags: breakthrough, dreams, family, isolation, life, lonely, love, melancholy, rage, Recovery
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Lincoln’s Adaptation to Depression

Written by John on March 16th, 2008
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In January 1841, Abraham Lincoln, then a state legislator in Illinois, wrote to his law partner about securing a post for a physician who was then treating him for a nervous disorder called hypochondriasis, or hypo for short, a condition we would call major depression. “I have, within the last few days, been making a [...]

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Tags: depression, freedom, humor, hypochondriasis, Joshua Shenk, Lincoln, melancholy, poetry, purpose, slavery, suicide, transcendent, treatment
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