Comfortably Numb

While I have never gone to see a specialist, I’m guessing that if I did I would probably find myself diagnosed as suffering from some kind of borderline depression.  Not trying to slight any of the millions of sufferers in anyway, but to be honest I don’t really consider Depression to be a type of illness, as the modern day world would have you believe.

Depression for me is just one of the many things that we as human beings can experience – much like the myriad of other emotions, such as anger, happiness, and even Love. It is all part of what makes us human, and should be embraced as such.

I am of the opinion that we should just experience our own feelings and emotions, without having the need to put labels and connotations (negative or otherwise) on them. And we certainly should not selectively shut them down, or block them with artificial chemicals and other types of “treatments”.

It saddens me to live in a world where the bulk of the population are refusing (or unable) to cope with their own emotions, instead opting to hide behind clinical labels, and dosing themselves with chemicals until they are comfortably numb and “suffering” from mass artificial happiness…

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“That’s the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn’t have those things we’d just be numb.”

–Kathy Mattea