DEPRESSION: Even When Life Goes On - Couverture souple

Comin, Odair

 
9798181838932: DEPRESSION: Even When Life Goes On

Synopsis

You may be okay, and still not truly be okay. You may have a life that works. You may wake up every day, fulfill your responsibilities, answer messages, smile at the right moments. And even so, feel that something inside you has turned the sound off. That the reasons to keep going still exist, but the cord that connected them to you has loosened. Pain does not always arrive as a rupture. Sometimes, it settles in silence while everything continues to function.

What once made sense… now feels heavy. What once drew you in… now simply happens. What once felt like life… now feels like sequence. This is not a book about stopping. It is about continuing… without fully knowing who is continuing. Across twelve therapy sessions, we follow Miguel, a man who built a solid, functional, admirable life… and who, even so, can no longer find a place for himself within it. Between losses, demands, and an identity built upon never failing, he finds himself facing something that can no longer be solved through control: the absence of himself.

This book moves through the quietest territory of the human experience: the depression of someone who, on the outside, seems fine. The depression that does not scream. That does not paralyze. That simply begins to empty the sound out of things. For the reader, each session also becomes a mirror. Miguel’s journey is a journey that, at some level, belongs to all of us. This book does not offer quick answers. But it opens space for an essential question: what remains… when the thing that once sustained you no longer makes sense? And for those who are beginning to suspect, even without knowing how to say it, that perhaps there is another way to inhabit their own life.

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