I also have (moderate) depression and anxiety but I guess I wouldn’t consider my experiences ‘intense/extreme suffering’ (although ‘extreme amounts of suffering’, as you’ve written, might make sense here).
The kind of suffering that’s experienced when, e.g. being eaten alive by predators, seems to me to be qualitatively different from the depression-induced suffering I experience. I somehow also ‘got used to’ depression-suffering after a while (probably independent of the anti-depressant effects) and also don’t mind it as much as I did, but that numbness and somewhat bearable intensity doesn’t seem to come with the ‘more physical’ causes of suffering.
I also have (moderate) depression and anxiety but I guess I wouldn’t consider my experiences ‘intense/extreme suffering’ (although ‘extreme amounts of suffering’, as you’ve written, might make sense here).
The kind of suffering that’s experienced when, e.g. being eaten alive by predators, seems to me to be qualitatively different from the depression-induced suffering I experience. I somehow also ‘got used to’ depression-suffering after a while (probably independent of the anti-depressant effects) and also don’t mind it as much as I did, but that numbness and somewhat bearable intensity doesn’t seem to come with the ‘more physical’ causes of suffering.