Bob Mizer on: Depression

Bob Mizer on: Depression
Bob Mizer on: Depression
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"Depression can occur after heavy eating & is only momentarily relieved by eating. Lack of ambition is brought on by overstuffed gut—Only cure for depression is some sort of accomplishment or achievement. I am obsessed with sense of inadequacy to do anything truly meaningful. On the one hand am disdainful of criticism or praise—but on the other concerned if I have real capability."


Bob Mizer's Personal Journal - August 31, 1971

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