Melancholy

Weathering The Winter Of The Soul

Pythia Peay | Posted 11.17.2011

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Pythia Peay

Light -- the radiance of spiritual illumination -- has always been celebrated by the world's religions. Yet like a season of the soul, the darker emotion of despair offers a different kind of illumination.

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Am I Depressed Or Just Deep?

Therese Borchard | Posted 11.17.2011

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Therese Borchard

I believed, along with all the other adults in my life, that my melancholy and sensitivity were part of my "special" make-up, that they were gifts to celebrate, not neuroses to treat.

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