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If you haven’t yet read Warren Ellis ad Darick Robertson’s Transmetropolitan, you’re missing out in a major way.
Hunter S. Thompson shuffled right on out of his mortal coils and on to the great buffalo in the sky in the middle of my senior year. I remember a teacher I had reading the announcement aloud [...]
Yeash! (this is my happy-dance, Sean-Connery-esque yes, my happy happy yes because I have made it to and through another goal day in November, the novel month, as in fiction, as in Yeash!)
So forgive my overwrought happiness. It’s a side-effect of this pursuit. Oh how I briefly mourn (before again being distracted by my outsized [...]
I decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month this year, and I’m already enjoying the journey. I’m using a tool called Write or Die see http://writeordie.drwicked.com/, that is kicking my ass in the good way that makes words come out of it. I’ve had so much success with it already that I’m thinking about [...]
Green has always been one of my favorite colors. I like all greens, but kelly green in particular has, for the last seven or eight years, been my favorite. As it turns out, green is a fantastic color to evoke positive feelings, and in particular to combat anxiety.
Wikipedia, being my constant companion, helps me bring [...]
I’ve been making big-picture adjustments of purpose and meaning in my life, as well as trying to shift my day-to-day activities such that I can be conscious of the various things in my life for which I am grateful. The job I mentioned applying for several posts ago, I ended up getting, and eventually, quitting. [...]
In some of my lowest times, I have found myself unable to do the thing that, for the particular corporeal being that is me, has the power to do the most soothing without being an escape, the power to accomplish the most change without being a drastically stupid decision, the power to heal without being [...]
depression can be debilitating, but with treatment, people suffering from the condition can notice marked reduction in symptoms.
Duration : 2 min 29 sec
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Nearly 30 million Americans suffer from clinical depression. Let’s look at what depression is…and what it does.
Duration : 3 min 7 sec
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This article about the intense subject of depression anticipates two ways of reaction. The question is: Will it be – in your case – shock or relief?
When you read about depression, you will encounter many passages like the following:
“These brain chemicals – in varying amounts – are responsible for our emotional state. Depression happens, when [...]
Probably there’s no one in the world who has not tasted the bitter taste of depression at some point of their lives. Like death it is an ailment that spares none. Leave alone human beings, depression doesn’t even spare non living things. Surprised what am I talking about? Well if you are aware, depression doesn’t [...]