Stuck in Bed

I would like you all (what can I say? I grew up in Texas) to read Cherished79’s entry Handcuffed to My House. She did a great job of describing what I have been experiencing the last five weeks or so. Remember my descriptions of all the nearly catatonic days in Geneva? Two of the most common, and in my mind most painful, symptoms of major depression are anhedonia and psychomotor retardation. The first is simply the lack of desire for anything pleasureable (an = not, hedonia = pleasure, same root as hedonism). The later is motor retardation caused by mental dysfunction (as opposed to neurological or physical or t.v.). Suicidality is a mosquito bite compared to these two; sometimes it even seems like the key to the handcuffs.
-Ashley