{"id":1014,"date":"2013-12-03T17:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2013-12-03T17:01:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T00:01:31","slug":"the-weight-of-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-weight-of-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weight of Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-weight-of-depression\/depression-2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1025\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1025\" title=\"depression.2\" src=\"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/depression.21-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Those of us who have suffered with depression isolate.\u00a0 We cannot bear contact with others.\u00a0 It&#8217;s as if our brains are exquisitely sensitive to touch.\u00a0 Nobody can understand the depth and the <em>utter truth<\/em> of our dark, endless despair.\u00a0 When we are in an intimate relationship the complications can magnify.\u00a0 We can&#8217;t\u00a0really isolate.\u00a0 In the depth of a depressive episode,\u00a0we maintain such a focus on our horrible inner pain that the very notion that we have an impact on another is hard to fathom &#8211; well, we easily see ourselves as a burden on others &#8211; but we don&#8217;t understand the depression as something other than ourselves.\u00a0 Depression is an illness that challenges the relationship.\u00a0\u00a0<em>It is not the depressed person who challenges the relationship<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 A good web article on this\u00a0subject may be found here: \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/depression\/features\/divorcing-depression\">Depression and intimate relationships<\/a>\u00a0 My wish for all depression sufferers who struggle in your marriages is that you embrace the reality that this darkness is not you and that with treatment you can come to know that the pain is not permanent &#8211; it can pass and you can recover a life that allows kindness, peace and joy to touch your heart.\u00a0 Having a loving partner who will join with you is among your greatest gifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who have suffered with depression isolate.\u00a0 We cannot bear contact with others.\u00a0 It&#8217;s as if our brains are exquisitely sensitive to touch.\u00a0 Nobody can understand the depth and the utter truth of our dark, endless despair.\u00a0 When we are in an intimate relationship the complications can magnify.\u00a0 We can&#8217;t\u00a0really isolate.\u00a0 In the <a href=\"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-weight-of-depression\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[25,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}