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Comments on: Living alone and depression https://www.rewriting-the-rules.com/self/living-alone-and-depression/ Meg-John Barker's website Thu, 28 Dec 2017 15:27:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Lisa https://www.rewriting-the-rules.com/self/living-alone-and-depression/#comment-25 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:20:27 +0000 http://rewritingtherules.wordpress.com/?p=260#comment-25 In reply to megbarkerpsych.

Hah! Should have known you’d have this angle covered. 😛

]]> By: megbarkerpsych https://www.rewriting-the-rules.com/self/living-alone-and-depression/#comment-24 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:44:44 +0000 http://rewritingtherules.wordpress.com/?p=260#comment-24 Spot on Lisa. This is something Sara Ahmed also writes very persuasively on in her book The Promise of Happiness (for those who aren’t familiar). I’m planning to bring these ideas together in my talk at BiReCon this year (on mental health) because I think the high rates of mental health struggles in bisexual people can be related to the fact that this way of relating to ourselves is even more prevalent for queer people due to the societal alienation which you point to. Hostilities which make it difficult/impossible to connect with others mean that people are even more boxed into bounded selves and separate spaces.

]]> By: Lisa https://www.rewriting-the-rules.com/self/living-alone-and-depression/#comment-23 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:37:02 +0000 http://rewritingtherules.wordpress.com/?p=260#comment-23 Great article, thank you.

I must always be on guard, lest others see the faults in my thinking, the cesspools of my emotions, and the embarrassing motives behind my actions … I must worry about how I compare to others, and whether I will be judged inferior.’ (xiii-xiv)

I think there are strong resonances here with the alienation of queer experience. “I must always be on guard” is not a fallacious belief but an accurate understanding of the mentality required for (literal or figurative) survival for many queer people. Bounding is necessary, isolation and alienation are inevitable, as long as hegemonic reality is hostile to queer people.

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