d Karp.) In Chapter 2, "The Dialectics of Depression" Karp’s goal is to let people hear how people about the depression experience. "Depression is an insidious vacuum that crawls into your brain and pushes your mind out of the way. It is the complete absence of rational thought. It is freezing cold, with dangerous horrifying, terrifying fog wafting throughout whatever is left of your mind." (Unemployed female administrator) This is the reoccurring theme that depression is an illness of isolation a dis-ease of disconnection. It is easy for me again to relate and back up the truth of this powerful statement. The people around you slowly begin to fade as we (those who struggle with a particular illness) stand back and watch the light of earth fade as we drift back into the dark holes of space. A feeling that only those who struggle can comprehend. David Karp and is interviewees do a wonderful example of distinguishing the feeling of remote isolation. "For some, the world loses its very dimensionality, appearing flat, lifeless, and colorless. Most fundamentally, however, the self is itself the bond between the person and the social world (II. P. 27 David Karp.) This is the downward spiral leading to the depths of depression. Realizing that the self is no longer apart of the social world. A feeling of being an outcast from the rituals of what it is to live a "normal" life. Describing depression or any mental illness to people who have not experienced it is nearly impossible. It is something that lurks beneath tugging you by your ankles and wrist, a roller coaster ride of emotions. One minute your great and the next you feel like the weight of the universe is crashing on your shoulders. "A sense of being trapped, or being caged, sort of like an animal, like a tiger pacing in a cage. That’s sort of how I feel like I’m in a cage and I’m trapped, and I can not get out and it’s night time and the daylight’s nev...
