That's an interesting angle on it -- thank you. I will try to compose something coherent.
The main thing that occurs to me is that I thought it'd take a conscious effort to love something that's basically a wailing animal, but it's a totally different sort of love & it kind of overwhelmed me.
I also thought I was prepared for all the negative emotions, & that I had coping strategies for depression, & it turns out I wasn't prepared & my coping strategies all require me to be able to sleep for more than 2 hours at a time. :-(
I am pleased to note that despite all the people who said "you'll totally stop being interested in [everything I was interested in before]", I haven't stopped being interested in other things at all -- I just have very little time/energy to do anything about most other interests (so, to try to give people the benefit of the doubt, maybe that's sort of what they meant...).
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Date: 2011-06-03 03:51 pm (UTC)The main thing that occurs to me is that I thought it'd take a conscious effort to love something that's basically a wailing animal, but it's a totally different sort of love & it kind of overwhelmed me.
I also thought I was prepared for all the negative emotions, & that I had coping strategies for depression, & it turns out I wasn't prepared & my coping strategies all require me to be able to sleep for more than 2 hours at a time. :-(
I am pleased to note that despite all the people who said "you'll totally stop being interested in [everything I was interested in before]", I haven't stopped being interested in other things at all -- I just have very little time/energy to do anything about most other interests (so, to try to give people the benefit of the doubt, maybe that's sort of what they meant...).