From Bruce Levine:
\nOn depression in adolescence: \u201cWhy is it that so many young people have unhealed wounds?\u00a0 Since our consumer culture is increasingly uncomfortable when it comes to dealing with pain, many parents have difficulty dealing with their children\u2019s pain.\u00a0 Parents with unhealed wounds cannot deal with the wounds of their kids. … [This creates distance] and with this distance, teens feel unknown, … They cannot really experience deep care or love.\u201d pp83-84<\/p>\n
\u201cKafka saw how this increasingly dehumanizing new world order would infect families and destroy human kindness.\u00a0 He knew that those like himself, who were especially sensitive to this reality, would be the first to feel alienated, anguished, and depressed, but that eventually so would everyone. …
\n\u201cThere\u2019s a long list of artists …\u00a0 who, in response to tremendous pain, either committed suicide or abused substances resulting in premature death.\u00a0 And there\u2019s an even longer list of people who are equally overwhelmed by their emotions, sensitivity, and intuition, but who lack the talent, support, or luck necessary to create great works.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 p85<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe that in true community and a rehumanized society, we would want intuitive, prophetic, and pessimistic people.\u00a0 Even when people with such temperaments do not become great visionaries, they are valuable as canaries in the mine. … From my experience, they may be more prone to depression, but they are almost always right when they warn that a family, a community, a society, or a culture is in trouble.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 pp87-88<\/p>\n
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