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I cannot put a specific date to the start of my ‘depression’ but can clearly recognise a time when I felt ‘better’ and more able to face life again.
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There are two seemingly exclusive states – the crushing hollowness of clinical depression, and the full sensory experience of being ‘alive’ – which seem utterly unrelated; poles apart, even, as if passing from one to the other entails becoming a different person entirely.
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