Wednesday 9 March 2022

Burton

A person enters the depressive position if the amount of stress that he comes under is greater than the amount of stress that he can tolerate given the compliment of genes he has inherited...If these people are in the depressive position it is because they tried too hard or took on too much. So hard and so much that they have made themselves ill with depression. In other words, if these people are in the depressive position, it was simply because their world was not good enough for them. They wanted more. They wanted better. They wanted different, not just for themselves, but for all those around them...They could of swept everything under the carpet and pretended as so many people do, that all is for the best and the best of possible worlds.

Neel Burton

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