Shadowman
Shadowman

Shadowman

Shadowman - Pike Place Pedestrian Overpass - Seattle WA

De·pres·sion : diˈpreSHən : [noun] : Severe despondency and dejection, typically felt over a period of time and accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy.

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Here,

this fellow is crossing

the pedestrian overpass at Seattle’s Pike Place Market.

It speaks to me of how many who suffer with mental illness,

walk in the shadows of life.

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The recent, tragic suicide of Robin Williams

has started a lot of conversations about depression,

mental illness and suicide,

which is good.

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For a country and culture that touts openness and forward thinking,

mental illness has still remained a taboo subject.

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Therefore, people with problems coping with circumstances in their daily lives

are often left to live in quiet desperation.

For some their chronic pain,

illness or mental illness becomes something they can no longer juggle,

they feel burdensome to others,

that the world would be better off without them,

and so tragically they take their own lives.

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If one positive thing

can come out of Robin’s death,

it is my prayer that it would be that those so afflicted,

can be open about their troubles and find

compassion and helpful treatment

by our state of the art medical community.

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I lost a grandfather to suicide,

he had silicosis and was slowly suffocating to death

and a good friend who was in chronic pain

that the medical community wouldn’t treat sufficiently

to give him relief enough to live

in some measure of comfort.

Both tragedies.

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11 Comments

  1. Great shot Madge I just heard on the news Robin Williams had Parkinson’s so it is so very sad for many many reasons. Awareness is the key in depression we need to listen and learn more about it there is much need. Hug B

  2. I’ve coped with chronic depression most of my adult life. My brother once thought that all I had to do was “pull myself up by my bootstraps” and I’d be better. But like so many, mine has nothing to do with sadness or circumstances; it’s a matter of an inbalance of chemicals. I think more education is needed.

  3. I wrote a post on depression. I’m wondering if it’s a normal reaction to a hard world. It’s the happy people who are out of touch with reality, thanks to being drunk on adaptive brain chemicals.

  4. Striking photo, Madge. I like the colors, too. Recently, I was in our local cemetery, where I was photographing those wild sweet peas. In a relatively small area, there were headstones of 3 young people who had committed suicide within the last 3 years. So terribly tragic.

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