The noonday demon

Andrew Solomon, well-known for his TED Talks and his varied publications, reveals the agonizing depths of the illness as well as its progression through time. The book examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. It is likely to provoke discussion and controversy, and its generous assortment of voices, from the pathological to the philosophical, makes for rich, variegated reading. The New York Times Book Review Joyce Carol Oates. Depression is the flaw in love.

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There was a later paperback under the Touchstone imprint. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policymakers and politicians, drug designers and philosophers, Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease. The demon of acedia, which is also called the noonday demon , is the most burdensome of all the demons. First it makes the sun seem to slow down or stop moving, so that the day appears to be fifty hours long.

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Leave it to Kathleen Norris to make an ancient and almost unknown word relevant to modern readers, believers or not. Drawing on his own experiences, Solomon attempts to advance a comprehensive description of depression, from cultural and medical perspectives.

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Acedia “affects the body and the soul simultaneously. What we’re up against is a very formidable adversary. Chastity and the Noonday Demon. Author: Deacon Patrick Lappert.

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In the Common English translation we heard the Psalmist say: “Don’t be afraid of terrors at night, arrows that fly in daylight, or sickness that prowls in the dark, destruction that ravages at noontime. Acedia (pronounced ah-SEED-e-uh) is an old term coined by monks who lived in the desert during the fourth century. Before the Seven Deadly Sins became known to the worl the early Desert Fathers had a list of “Eight Bad Thoughts.

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Yet, of all these afflictions, he reports, “the demon of acedia, also called the noonday demon , is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. Acedia is a word of Greek origin that means, literally, “without care. Notes: Disclaimer: I own nothing and am making no profit from this story.