Resistance, Shame, and Depression
Posted by Bruce Porfilio on October 06, 2001 at 08:59:18:

In Reply to: About the specific characteristics of different emotional feelings. posted by John on October 06, 2001 at 00:10:29:

Thanks John for sharing your wisdom and self-transparency. I've been
suffering from flu symptoms for a couple weeks and haven't been able to
get my "juice" level up. Thanks to your phenomenological descriptions
of the basic feelings, I'm waking up to the fact that I am DEPRESSED!
I'm also waking up to how much RESISTANCE I experience to practicing
self-observation and mindfulness. Can you describe how the experience
of Shame (inner self-devaluation) accompanies and contributes to
depression? And could you say something about Resistance? to becoming
mindful of one's present emotional states? I believe Kierkegaard
refered to this pehenomenon as Dread of Transparency before oneself
(and God).

Lifelessly,
Bruce

Follow Ups:

• Some awareness exercises for depression. John 10/09/2001(1)
  • Oops! Blew it again. ;-) John 10/09/2001(0)

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