Testament of Youth

Testament of Youth:這電影是 Vera Brittain 1990 – 1025 年間的回憶錄,電影主要是一次大戰時的經歷。

最讓我感觸的是她戰死的未婚夫 Roland Leighton 寫的詩,

“Violets from Plug Street wood,
Sweet, I send you from oversea.
(It is strange they should be blue,
Blue, when his soaked blood was red,
For they grew around his head:
It is strange they should be blue.)
Violets from Plug Street Wood,
Think what they have meant to me—
Life and hope and love and you.
(And you did not see them grow,
where his mangled body lay,
Hiding horror from the day;
Sweetest it was better so)
Violets from oversea,
To your dear, far, forgetting land,
These I send in memory,
Knowing you will understand”.

更年期的情緒困擾

睪固酮不足症候群 影響性功能和工作男性也有更年期,研究顯示,女性得憂鬱症的比例是男性的兩倍。但是,男性的自殺率卻比女性高出了3~15倍。也許,大多數人忽略了男性也有如同女性般的心理及情緒困擾,或者是男性的情緒疾患以不同的面貌呈現,而且發生在某些人生必須共同經歷的階段。

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