More from Orwell on Abuse

More fine observation of the experience of abuse/depression from George Orwell’s essay, “Such, Such Were the Joys.”

I knew that bed-wetting was (a) wicked and (b) outside my control. The second fact I was personally aware of, and the first I did not question. It was possible, therefore, to commit a sin without knowing that you committed it, without wanting to commit it, and without being able to avoid it…. This was the great, abiding lesson of my boyhood: that I was in a world where it was not possible for me to be good.

The two, abuse and depression, are the same plant: the one the root, the other the branch.