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" It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil trick played upon the sick brain by the inhabiting psyche, comes to resemble the diabolical discomfort of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. And because no breeze stirs this... "
The Biology of mental disorders. - Page 9
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Depression and Its Treatment

John H. Greist, James W. Jefferson - 1992 - 188 pages
...physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb. It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil...the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion. What Causes Depression? Depression is almost always caused by a combination of factors. Inheritance...
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Heterotopia: Postmodern Utopia and the Body Politic

Tobin Siebers - 1994 - 294 pages
...physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb. It may be more accurate to say that despair. owing to some evil...of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. (50) His effort to describe the distinctive pain of depression shows not only that he is trapped within...
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Deinstitutionalization, Mental Illness, and Medications: Hearing ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1995 - 128 pages
...physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb. It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil...diabolical discomfort of being imprisoned in a fiercely ovetheated room. And because no breeze stirs this cauldron, because there is no escape from this smothering...
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Suicide and the Elderly: A Population at Risk : Hearing Before the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging - 1996 - 148 pages
...induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. Because no breeze stirs this caldron, because there is no escape from this smothering confinement,...the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion." The good news is that there is an "escape" from the "smothering confinement" Stryon describes. Depression...
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Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age

David B. Morris - 2023 - 360 pages
...physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb. It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil...of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room" (50). The torpid, immobile, joyless, defeated, hellishly overheated body of the depressive patient...
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God and the Victim: Theological Reflections on Evil, Victimization, Justice ...

Lisa Barnes Lampman, Michelle D. Shattuck - 1999 - 340 pages
...region that smothers hope. No one has described this better than William Styron. He writes, "It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil...natural that the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion."10 Evil labors not only to take away hope but also a reason to live. Viktor Frankl noted...
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Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression

Lewis Wolpert - 1999 - 216 pages
...the degree of depression. Styron describes it well, writing of depression leading to a despair that 'owing to some evil trick played upon the sick brain...imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. And because there is no escape from this smothering confinement, it is natural that the victim begins to think...
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One in Thirteen: The Silent Epidemic of Teen Suicide

Jessica Portner - 2001 - 132 pages
...his memoir, Darkness Visible, author William Styron compares depression to suffocation: "The despair comes to resemble the diabolical discomfort of being...imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. And because there is no escape from this smothering confinement, it is entirely natural that the victim begins...
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Love, Honor and Value: A Family Caregiver Speaks Out about the Choices and ...

Suzanne Mintz, Suzanne Geffen Mintz - 2002 - 228 pages
...physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb. It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil...overheated room. And because no breeze stirs this caldron, because there is no escape from this smothering confinement, it is entirely natural that the...
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Reinventing Depression: A History of the Treatment of Depression in Primary ...

Christopher M. Callahan M.D., German E. Berrios M.D. - 2004 - 240 pages
...physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb. It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil...the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion. The blurred boundaries between a normal, passing emotion and an intractable, devastating disease, coupled...
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