Depression
“It is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion,” said Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.Origin: from the stifling of crying.
My father hated loudness. Loud laughing, crying, door shutting, talking, everything. Spilling things was also cause for severe disappointment and exasperated sighs that bordered on temper-blowing. But, I digress.
Crying and laughing are adaptations that are solely human. They relieve a tension that cannot be relieved any other way. In my own personal experience, tension is not relieved unless I can make inhuman sounds come out of my mouth, inhuman, loud noises that come from way deep down in my belly. Uncontrolled wailing, unsuppressed sadness transformed into air waves and vibrations and eye sweat. It's beautiful and un-substitut-able.
It is my belief that if this inner tension produced by tragedy, stress, sadness isn't expunged through uncontrollable sobbing it will turn into clinical depression.
Survival of the fittest:
LET IT OUT;
wail it out;
whale it out?
Alzheimer's
Origin: from trying for years to forget regrets, eventually the brain relents and learns to forget--everything.Pretty self-explanatory. I haven't done the research but I wonder if there's a correlation between traumatic pasts and Alzheimer's diagnoses. Or maybe people that are prone to traumatic lives due to other mental illnesses and chemical/nutritional insufficiencies have the same genes/chemical make up that leads to this disease.
In other news: Weed helps! THC and coffee (among other things) are good preventers of the evil and feared Ally-Z.
