I’m not sure whether anxiety and depression are feelings, or mental states that keep you at a distance from your feelings. Regardless, a big old ball of anxiety tinged with despair has been hanging over me like that little Zoloft cloud lately, and every which way I’ve tried to fight it – or not fight it and simply get through it – has failed miserably…
…including posting this quote. Oh well. Maybe it’ll work for you.
(I don’t know whether this rightly belongs in the “inspiration and encouragement” category, but I don’t have one called “let’s all feel like shit together,” so it’ll have to do.)
Rainer Maria Rilke was my father’s favorite writer, and certainly became mine when it comes to inspiration: feeling it, sharing it, recovering it (or from it?). Thank you for sharing. I relate. In every drop of depression is a treasure of not-yet-expressed inspiration.