It’s easy to slip into the dumps. How does one get out?
Most people get discouraged at one time or another. Anything can be a trigger: dissatisfying work; marital conflict; disappointing frustrating or frightening behavior in a child. Whatever starts it going the downhill slide soon takes on a life of its own. It’s bad mood time.
Dark Glasses
In this constricted state things start to look black and bleak. The doors and windows of the mind are shut; there is no way out. Nothing will ever get better. Nothing makes a difference. Nobody cares. Nobody can help. Even Hashem appears to have turned away. Exhaustion. Despair. Emptiness. Boredom. Why bother?
Sometimes the feelings whisper in the background while life seems to go on as normal. At other times their deafening roar brings a halt to all constructive activity. Often they linger somewhere in between slowly and quietly draining the life force the “joie de vivre” (joy of living) as the French would say. One feels like a helpless victim. It seems there’s nothing to be done but wait it out.
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