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Dear Ruby Sea,
A dispirited person is definitely depressed--feeling low, aching, miserable, on the point of tears, or wanting to crawl into a hole and die.
I agree with you that the apathetic person is in another place entirely. Feeling nothing. Perhaps once dispirited, but now feeling nothing. Not caring. Neither a little happy--nor a little sad. Not even neutral, which is actually a pretty decent mental state because it allows minute fluctuations of pain and pleasure.
But the poor apathetic feels nothing. At least with a dispirited person there's hope for movement toward a better emotional level. But with the apathetic person, you've got to get in there and make something go. It's like charging a dead engine! Apathy is a lot closer to death than dispiritedness....if dispiritedness is a word. Calling all tswums!!! Calling all tswums!!!
Bliss remorse,
Woewind
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Functional difference Jackie 03/12/02 05:01 PM Re: Functional difference Faldage 03/12/02 05:04 PM Re: Functional difference WhitmanO'Neill 03/12/02 05:11 PM Re: Functional difference Capital Kiwi 03/12/02 05:44 PM Re: Functional difference wwh 03/12/02 06:08 PM Re: Functional difference wsieber 03/13/02 01:35 PM Re: Functional difference RhubarbCommando 03/13/02 03:05 PM Re: Functional difference Wordwind 03/13/02 06:39 PM Re: Functional difference Capital Kiwi 03/13/02 06:55 PM Re: dispiritedness tsuwm 03/13/02 07:05 PM Re: Functional difference Geoff 03/13/02 09:42 PM
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