How Nietzsche cured my depression

I was introduced to Nietzsche during some of the darkest days of my life.

It happened at a time when I was suffering from severe existential depression.
I recall so well what happened then.

Reading the first few pages of the Genealogy of Morals felt like a prosaic invitation into a secret cult whose initiation rituals demand of me to put a gun against my head – against the values and norms I was taught since my beginning.

As much as his ideas, did his prose take me over and under.
I felt like a dinghy floating on the open seas.
Not knowing where I was heading, I keeled over, I turned and twisted.
Nietzsche’s words on the origin of our moral prejudices resounded throughout my personal world.
I faced the calmest calms and the heaviest of sea storms.
In the end there was nothing inside of me that was left untouched.
I felt empty and ready for a new beginning.
Ready for a spiritual transformation as I started to realize
that the cure for my suffering was always borne deeply inside of me.
His words resounded with clamour and life-affirmation.
Suddenly there was a meaning for suffering - it is a test of one's true worth.
Suffering makes us great and is as sacred as the gods.

What does not kill me… makes me stronger.

Thanks chhaylin.

You've inspired my first ever post. For years I have been telling anyone who would listen that Nietzsche is a writer of grace, clarity and real poetry. Apparently he could only write for 30 minutes at a time due to illness. For me this seems to have focused his thoughts in the most profound way. A good lesson for me starting off here. Less is sometimes more.

Have you read Irvin Yalom "When Nietzsche Wept"? A very powerful book psychologically adjusted. It seems, for it Irwin gave serious award.
Also the film was made http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0760188/

The story of how Nietzsche cured Dr. Breuer from existential depression.
My recommendations.

No I haven't so thanks for the recommendations. I'll check them out.

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