“Someone once asked me, ‘Why do you always insist on taking the hard road?’
I replied, ‘Why do you assume I see two roads?’” Author unknown.
The above quote sounds all very Alice-in-Wonderland’ish but it was taken from a website entitled ‘Depression, Suicide & Self-Injury Quotes’. And it startled me out of an assumption I have long held to be the truth.
The basic assumption is that the person who continues to choose the hard road through life actually sees an alternative – that there are two roads, not just one.
In relation to depression or any maladaptive behaviour which continues to hold sway over a person’s life long past the time when that behaviour had value and relevance, I have come to believe there is choice involved.
