Currently on pg.140, chapter 15
On page 53, Dr. Desai tells Vicky, "This dislike you have for everything - that's not your fault, that's not something you're responsible for. The dislike comes from looking through these dirty glass goggles of depression that distort everything and everyone you see. You kept on going for the longest time, pretending you were seeing clearly when all was blurry and gray and ugly." Statements like this make me really like this book. However, on page 138 Dr. Desai says, "The feelings that resulted from her (Vicky) mother's decline and death turned from a sadness that was natural and even healthy into one that was unhealthy." I can see how this statement could make a reader conflicted. Maybe they didn't have a single event that they can name that started their depression. I will continue to read the book and see if Stork clarifies this statement. He has and is describing, through the story, the difference between healthy and unhealthy sadness.
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