Getting By A good friend of mine asked for some tips the other day on dealing with minor depression. I’d mentioned managing mental illness a few years ago on my blog, a...
Depressing I was really depressed by the comments on this post that Robert Scoble made until I read the comment by Mobile Jones , who I think stated the point perfectl...
mental illness So there have been a whole lot of visitors to this site this week, as hitting the Top 10 on Blogdex and Daypop three times each, and then getting slashdo...
failures It is the curse of humans that when we fail, it hurts most those least able to bear the brunt. Not the invulnerable, but the child or the animal or that other...
I was re-reading an email I was re-reading an email I had sent to a friend who had emailed me on my birthday, in the first week of September. In my reply, I had said “After [personal re...
Unable to post. Tryptophan coma. Unable to post. Tryptophan coma. Back in hometown, sleeping in childhood bed at parents’ house and gnashing teeth for all the same old reasons. Now back to sle...
I know, I know, let's I know, I know, let’s move on. I’m feeling better, some time has passed, talk about something else. I have been, really. Trying to live as much as possible. My...
So my birthday always means, So my [birthday]( "that was on Wednesday") always means, to me, the beginning of autumn. Fall used to mean an ominous threat of shorter days and thei...
I know it has been I know it has been a source of much knee-jerk amusement for the hipster crowd, but reading about A.J. McLean being treated for depression gave me pause for a...
Sigh. I'm such a loser Sigh. I’m such a loser geek. In addition to going around compulsively micropaying everybody or buying stuff off their Amazon WishLists, I’ve got to go blow $10...
It's amazing, I wish I It’s amazing, I wish I could just grab the whole bunch of you and give you a hug, because I’ve been through exactly what you’re going through now, but I didn’t...
Jen over at whim&vinegar also Jen over at whim&vinegar also makes some good points about depression, a fitting sidebar to the comments from Rebecca’s Pocket below. Makes me wonder if...
Great comment over at rebecca's Great comment over at rebecca’s pocket : A quarter of the new drugs now being developed by pharmaceuticals are antidepressants. I am well acquainted with...