Dear lostcatlady:

I think that this is what happened to you: throughout your childhood, your father has been “apathetic and distant” and your mother, well, if she loves you, somehow her love was not delivered to you. And so, you grew up with very little love, similar to a young tree growing up with very little water and nutrients. It minimally grows, fitting the minimal water and nutrients available to it.

“I feel that I skipped a very important part of growing up”- love is what you missed, that water-and-nutrients that we desperately need.

And so, minimally there is passion, joy, desire to connect with others, to learn, to advance, to make good things happen for yourself. Depression is the result, that condition of being minimally alive.

Am I correct?

anita