Nowadays it can seem as i anguish should not be tolerated.instead we can relabel it as depression and get it treated or simply take to drink or other means of blotting out reality and its pains.The idea that we ought never to feel anguish,grief and anxiety can make it much harder to bear the emotions.There is a struggle within us.Yet imagine if Jesus had said in Gethsemene,I need some antidepressants.He was afraid and begged God for help.Then he was tried and executed.To call his suffering anguish would be an understatement.
I don’t expect we go through such intense suffering here in the West though people are committing suicide frequently.But if we do often others are critical.My friend Rose lost her mother and after 6 months of grief her husband said she needed therapy.That is,I imagine,because other people don;t like to see us suffer as it upsets them.
Yet none of us is exempt from pain.And that makes me believe that our answer is in helping each other.Therapy may help us but bereavement is a normal part of life.The depressed feeling and sorrow tie us down so that we can use our energy internally to redraw the maps in our mind which guide us to and through our world.
I don’t expect we go through such intense suffering here in the West though people are committing suicide frequently.But if we do often others are critical.My friend Rose lost her mother and after 6 months of grief her husband said she needed therapy.That is,I imagine,because other people don;t like to see us suffer as it upsets them.
Yet none of us is exempt from pain.And that makes me believe that our answer is in helping each other.Therapy may help us but bereavement is a normal part of life.The depressed feeling and sorrow tie us down so that we can use our energy internally to redraw the maps in our mind which guide us to and through our world.
How my heart sings 