tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886575137375451769.post7315767904309040928..comments2023-08-08T00:53:58.434-07:00Comments on Garth Kroeker: Reservoir MetaphorGKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14714377295981745087noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886575137375451769.post-48268058874993510792009-01-27T09:59:00.000-08:002009-01-27T09:59:00.000-08:00I've been reading Peter Kramer's Against Depressio...I've been reading Peter Kramer's Against Depression this week.I've been thinking about his discussion of "depressive personality" (and the way that "chronic depression" might play out in these cases), and (as a corollary) individuals who have an underlying optimistic personality (if a personality can be described this way), yet still experience a chronic depression. Anyway, your comments today (especially the blocked reservoir metaphor) remind me of this. It often seems to me that my own udnerlyign temperament is actually quite sunny, but for many reasons I find it difficult to access this. I think sometimes I see this "conflict" as emotional lability, when perhaps it is instead a fight between my underlying "happy" personality and some kind of external process that I have started to internalize.<BR/><BR/>I find the reservoir metaphor very helpful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com