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Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

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Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness
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“If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration.”

It starts with a low hum that adheres itself to the underbelly of the hours like another dimension. Gradually, surreptitiously, the noise swells to a bellowing bass line, until it drowns out the symphony of life.
It can last for days or months or entire seasons of being. It visited Keats frequently in his short life, leaving him with a mind empty of ideas and hands heavy as lead

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