How Infinite Jest tethered me to life when I almost let it go
What strikes you when you come out of a deep depression or get close to a depressed person is the utter self-absorption of misery.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Terms the undepressed toss around and take for granted as full and fleshy—happiness, joie de vivre, preference, love—are stripped to their skeletons and reduced to abstract ideas. They have, as it were, denotation but not connotation. The anhedonic can still speak about happiness and meaning et al., but she has become incapable of feeling anything
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