So, there's a tendency, then, to slip into rage and self-pity, which if indulged, can fester into bouts of depression.” Even an old tomato like me can recall how painful, scary, and disillusioning that realization was. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. “The key word here is roots,” Maestra had countered. Even at seventeen, he was aware that depression could have chemical causes. “All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.”Īt the time Switters had disputed her assertion.
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