Goats are agile and skillful climbers among the steep cliffs of their natural mountainous habitats, but when domesticated their surroundings offer them little opportunity to develop and practice their climbing and balancing skills.
When I talk about depression in a dismissive or disrespectful tone, it is because we need to dismiss the ideas that are getting in the way of helping people who suffer from depression.
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Depression deserves our disdain. It responds to the right treatment, yet we continue to treat it with outdated methods.
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Our language is littered with gardening metaphors. I suppose that’s because we have been in contact with the earth throughout human history and that connection has shaped many of our expressions.
It has also given us an innate understanding of how to help things grow and flourish in all areas of our lives, and the things that need weeding out if our relationships are to continue to provide nourishment and beauty year after year.
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