No Words

Do you understand anxiety? Do you understand depression? When you watch, when you feel, the progressive, increasing slump that a loved one takes, what do you do?

The reality? Sheer helplessness. You can do, nothing. The processes involving such conditions are mysteries that science has very few answers for. Real answers, anyhow. There are no words you can offer. One either hears the words and cannot accommodate them, process or use them. Or, the response is an arbitrary, hostile response that the well intentioned deliverer is unable to ever, ever, mend or reconcile.

Rock and a hard spot. In both cases, you lose. In some cases, permanently.