I think we're actually describing the same thing, just from different hemispheres :-) Acute depression is a form of madness, at least it was considered so when I was experiencing it during my teenaged years. It just wasn't quite to the "lock them up and throw away the key" level :-)

That said and nonetheless, I again find myself floored by how delicately you manage to portray the relationships between the two of them. It is your fine detail work that enriches your canvas. No sledgehammers for you, just a gentle dance to an irrepressible rhythm, even if it is only within memory.

- Erulisse (one L)