MLC exists

[Holly06]

I have been reading Terrence Real, "I Don't want to talk about it".
MLC is really covert depression. We can call it MLC because of the time in life it occurs, but really there is a known medical diagnosis for it.
There were a couple of phrases that struck a cord with me.
I thought I would list them for you here.

1. The cure for covert depression is overt depression. You have to go through the overt depression, and it is painful. You have to have courage.
2. First they have to stop the addictive behaviors that stablized their depression, second learn how to nurture yourself, (parent yourself if you will) third release the feelings of shame, and other negative feelings.
3. You can not recover from covert or overt depression and remain numb the whole time.
Counseling helps this process, it is really scary.
Medication and possible hospitalization helps too.

These are a few of my impressions. Thought they might be timely for you.
Holly