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A beautiful thought from someone at the meeting for worship I attend.  That one should plant apple trees in the winter, rather than the spring.  These beings need a period of darkness, stillness, before they can grow.  They emerge in the spring the better for it. 

This thought strikes me as a perfect metaphor for depression.  Especially, because it speaks to the issue of suffering.  Taking medication for depression can be seen as wearing winter coat to protect oneself from the extreme cold.  Such an act requires some recognition or self-awareness, again, similar to the decision to take psychotropic medication.  However, it doesn’t preclude a person’s sensory experience of the cold, darkness, snow, and wind.  
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