Clawing My Way Out

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There have been many times when I had to creep out of a very dark, deep pit of despair. I try not to wallow in depression, but, as an Enneagram type Four (and I in no way mean to blame that for all my shortcomings), I struggle to disengage from my feelings and actually live. That is, unless I so completely disconnect from my feelings that I’m in fact pretending they’re nonexistent, something that in turn can lead to my feelings eventually overpowering me and my falling back into the pit. When this happens, I can choose to either stay there or claw my way out and so far, I’ve thankfully always chosen the latter!

I’m thankful that, even though it’s fall and this is usually a season for misery and melancholy for me, I haven’t found myself in the dark valley yet. Let’s hope I can skip it this year!

This post was written for this week’s edition of Six Sentence Stories. The prompt word is “claw”.

21 thoughts on “Clawing My Way Out”

  6. (in the Wakefield Doctrine, there are three ‘personality types’) one of those three are prone to the experience you allude to (neither of the other two can even imagine the horrible pull of such a state)

    … in my own experience, I’ve found that when I read about another person’s experience with the same thing, the dreadful pull that my own dark voice has on me is lessen’d ever so slightly

    so thank you for writing this, to know that another has returned from the cold dark place, gives me… not strength (because it’s not about resisting or fighting, not really)

    …rather it is about identifying with another (un-specified Wakefield Doctrine personality type lol) who has been there and returned.

    In the way of ‘identifying with another person’ I take something positive from your experience.

    thx!

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