MEMBER BLOG TAG: depression
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:05PM | | | | MAKING PEACE WITH THE WRITER'S MIND | Tags: ANNIE DILLARD, otto rank. eric maisel, creative writing, depression
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A few years ago I suffered a moderate depression. I get them now and then, and certainly I come by them honestly, as anyone who knows me can testify. Usually I go to bed for a few days and then shake it off, but in this case, after a month of lolling on the couch watching bad TV and mumbling about the pointlessness of all existence, my Best Beloved suggested perhaps I needed some help. And so, among other things, I sought out a therapist.
Well, not to besmirch the therapist, who was a lovely woman, but... | | | | | | | Thursday, November 27, 2008 8:35AM | | | | The Power of Thanks | Tags: Thanksgiving, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Roosevelt, Obama, economy, Depression
| | | I’m up early on Thanksgiving morning before the house awakes. It is still dark outside. Our dogs—Max, a German shepherd, and Nala, a golden retriever—look up at me to see if it is really time to start the day. They know the routine. Max follows me downstairs to go outside to get the morning papers—The Washington Post dropped near the porch, The New York Times left on the sidewalk, then a trip to the kitchen to pick up dog bones before we return upstairs where I get on an exercise bike to read the papers and the dogs settle on the floor beside me to chew their bones.
But this morning I’m up too early; the papers have not yet arrived. The house, which... | | | | | | | Sunday, April 27, 2008 2:50PM | | | | be depressed | Tags: depression, music, genius, madness, ranson-polizzotti
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I hate to advise anyone to be depressed or to wallow, because as a general rule, walling is for the self-indulgent among us and those who go about creating their own drama. So, this post warrants some clarification. I am not suggested that one work or aim for being depressed. This is not a goal to which one strives. But, nonetheless, we often find ourselves due to circumstances in life that are well beyond our control, in a very depressed and listless state, unable to even get up out of bed and wash our glowing locks or brush even our teeth.
First, it's always a good idea to brush your teeth, no matter how... | | | | | |
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