8 bad thoughts, after Evagrius Ponticus

I've been reading Kathleen Norris' Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life.

She talks about the 8 "bad thoughts" identified by monks of the 4th century. According to one of them, Evagrius Ponticus, these are:

• gluttony
  
• lust
• avarice
• sorrow
• anger
• discouragement
• vainglory
• pride

These were later turned into the seven deadly sins by Pope Gregory the Great.

She focuses on acedia, or "discouragement/apathy". This was subsumed into sadness by Gregory, but she thinks that it deserves it's own place. I can't help but agree.

The wisdom of this strikes me, both of giving acedia it's rightful place, and also as a total structure. At the risk of sounding like a first year psychology student who thinks they have every malady they study, I see myself in all of these things. They really form a matrix, and all point at the same thing - our essential brokenness, which I believe that God would like to heal. All of them separate us from God, which is a good enough definition of sin for me.