The Importance of Mindfulness in Depression

depression is like looking at the world through a pair of dark glasses, and in my experience that's true. I find literature captures this difficulty better than psychology can. In Joseph Conrad's masterpiece, Heart of Darkness, were never told what precisely Kurtz, the corrupted, megalomaniacal ivory trader Marlowe travels into the Congo to meet, sees in his deathbed vision. All Marlowe conveys is the effect of that chilling vision on Kurtz. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath. The horror, the