I love this quote. It is so damn beautiful. It is from Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace.
"sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them."
I told that myriads of times for me jokes are a huge coping skill. I can remember the time in the psych ward. I have read this quote during that time and it really comforted me. It is so damn true. At least for me.
It captures this ambivalent when you are severely depressed so well. Like this feeling. Yeah I wanna die. I don't want to feel this anymore. I am so full of it. I can't take it anymore. Please is there someone who can help me? I am so lonely. It hurts so much. Please can anyone help. I am dying. I am innerly dying.
It is like the description of Sylvia Plath. Running out of oxygen when you are under water. (Not sure if I confuse that with the description of another author). Like there is a fronzen sea and you desperately try to break free because you swim under it. Slowly and very slowly you are drowning. You experience everything with full consciousness. Also the survival instinct and your most primitive instincts are activiated.
This is what this quote means to me. I could elaborate more on it. I love this quote.
"sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them."
I told that myriads of times for me jokes are a huge coping skill. I can remember the time in the psych ward. I have read this quote during that time and it really comforted me. It is so damn true. At least for me.
It captures this ambivalent when you are severely depressed so well. Like this feeling. Yeah I wanna die. I don't want to feel this anymore. I am so full of it. I can't take it anymore. Please is there someone who can help me? I am so lonely. It hurts so much. Please can anyone help. I am dying. I am innerly dying.
It is like the description of Sylvia Plath. Running out of oxygen when you are under water. (Not sure if I confuse that with the description of another author). Like there is a fronzen sea and you desperately try to break free because you swim under it. Slowly and very slowly you are drowning. You experience everything with full consciousness. Also the survival instinct and your most primitive instincts are activiated.
This is what this quote means to me. I could elaborate more on it. I love this quote.
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