Depression is something a bunch of us are going through, or will go through. There are varying degrees of
depression, ranging from just a perpetual
sadness to severe, debilitating clinical depression. I have also included information on
bipolar disorder, or
manic depression if you will, since it’s on the same branch of
psychology. Whichever it is, you will probably benefit from eating up as much knowledge about it as you can.
Depression pushes you against surfaces, and adds heaviness either atom by atom or all at once until the strain of this motion dominates all else. It is one-pointed, claustrophobic, and circular. It doubts, denies, and questions everything that comes in contact with it.
I offer you all the nodes ever written about depression. Enjoy your meal.
Personal experiences with depression:
Other people’s opinions about depression:
The facts:
Medications and treatment:
Helpful information and advice:
Literature, and writers who suffer from depression:
Anne Sexton, poet - moody, visceral
’Prozac Nation’, by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Anything by Ayn Rand is sure to make you hate, hate, hate.
Samuel Beckett - repetitive, absurd
Raymond Carver - gritty, dark, and rough
Rainer Maria Rilke, contemplative and sublime poet
Nick Hornby, agitated and charming novelist
Eugene O'Neill, intense and intimate playwright
Natsume Soseki, sardonic and lyrical novelist
Kurt Vonnegut - witty, anxious
Edgar Allen Poe - violent, dark
Franz Kafka - alienated, dystopic, dreamy
Fyodor Dostoevsky - psychological, manic
T.S. Eliot, poet - death, elegant
Ernest Hemingway - tense, rough
Depressing Music:
- sitting alone in a big house and listening to depressing music
- Pink Floyd’s ’The Wall’
- The Cure - quirky, melancholy
- Radiohead - voluminous, lush, moody
- Tool - genius, beautiful, angry, transcendent
- A Perfect Circle - the 'other' side of tool - romantic, feminine, emotive rather than logical. Intuitive rather than mathematical.
- Fiona Apple - anorexic, attitude, sullen, vacant
- nirvana - grunge, antidote, suicidal
- Nine Inch Nails - angsty, personal
- Portishead - lonely, haunting
- Jeff Buckley - sorrow, emotion, grace
- The Verve - pop, tragic
- Leonard Cohen
- Velvet Underground - agitated, fuzzy
Depressing Films and Directors
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - perverse, domestic
Lynne Ramsay - psychological and urban
Andrei Tarkovsky - pathos, implosive
Woody Allen - moody, neurotic
Philosophy and Philosophers:
absurdism
nihilism
Soren Kierkegaard - Inventor of angst
Arthur Schopenhauer
Artistes:
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