A quick question
I'm worn out. It's been a long week and I've made some progress on that professional problem I alluded to in my last post. I plan to spend this Friday afternoon playing WoW. So, the question: Is it...
View ArticleListen to this
For the first time since I started this blog, I have a whole stack of things that I want to say. In the past, my intent when I came here has been very singular and it was usually just to scream into...
View ArticleFolic acid update and some thoughts about obligation
So, it's been roughly three weeks, I think. I ran out of pills yesterday so right now I'm at about 18 hours since I took the last one. More are coming but I didn't plan well.Again, I don't have much to...
View ArticleDepression and Atheism
I promised this topic a while back. Sorry it's taken me a while. Actually, I don't know if I should apologize at all. It seems kind of silly of me to think that any of you wake up day after day...
View ArticleSweet, sweet suicide.
Have you seen Mad Men? This is one of those television series that critics and rabid fans tell you that a) you aren't watching and b) you really suck because you aren't watching it because it is so...
View ArticleThe Evolutionary Benefits of Depression
(Guest post by Allison Gamble on behalf of psychologydegree.net“Pain or suffering of any kind, if long continued, causes depression and lessens the power of action, yet it is well adapted to make a...
View ArticleAgain with the folic acid
It's been about six weeks now. I started on this particular acid trip around the first of August and, aside from that first euphoric week, I haven't been much impressed. The second week was a bitch of...
View ArticleFabulous Folic Acid? - A folic acid update from another perspective.
This is a guest post from my buddy JL. She discovered folic acid around the same time that I did and has had much better success with it. So, to avoid yet another gloomy "things still suck" post from...
View ArticleLiving with depression
This is something I really haven’t given much thought to. If you were to look back at this blog, which constitutes pretty much all my thinkinhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifg about depression since...
View ArticleFolic fail
I finished off my fourth bottle of the mmthff-whatever a couple of days ago. Apart from the first week which I chalk up to a placebo effect, I saw no change over the many weeks while I took it. This...
View ArticleLame update with a quote...
It's been a while since I said anything. Things have not been good for me personally or professionally but I'm surviving. I have no patience for people whining about their life's circumstances so I...
View ArticleTrying it the Nerdist Way
I've been away. Long time readers will know that I do that. I won't make any promises that I'm back to updating regularly. But, for now, here's a post. So, my life has continued to crumble. Just when I...
View ArticleDeath and falling stars
I recently lost a close friend. Literally, as I typed that, a huge, fast burning, falling star appeared before me. I literally mean literally. Let me tell you where I am as I write this. I’m in a suite...
View ArticleFollowing up...
This isn't a real post, just a follow up on the last one. That post was incredibly cathartic for me. Writing it was the last time I wept uncontrollably over the situation. I've squished out a few tears...
View ArticleHi!
I'm thinking I'll take this up again. A lot has changed with me and a lot has remained the same. You can expect the same incoherent, navel gazing posts as before. Right now I'm just doing some...
View ArticleStill Pursuing
It’s been a while…again.A lot has changed in my life since I last published an honest post; although, to be honest, none of these posts are entirely honest. They may be more or less true chunks of my...
View ArticleTried Prescriptions
I know. The original point of this blog was to chronicle my battle with depression without prescription drugs. Well, since we last spoke I broke down and tried a couple of prescription antidepressants....
View ArticleThe Saga of Remeron/mirtazapine
I mentioned in my last post that, despite my distrust, I tried prescriptions, plural. But, I spent the whole post whining about Prozac. The other one I tried was remeron. Let's talk about that.About...
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Social Anxiety, Let's Talk About It
In my last post I promised that I was done talking about prescription meds as related to depression. Well…This isn’t exactly that but it’s peripherally relevant. The point of this post is in interest...
View ArticleStand-up Comedians
So, there’s a sudden gear shift, right?I’ve been ruminating on this post for a while. I have loved stand up comedy for as long as I can remember. As a kid I loved to listen to my father’s LPs of Bill...
View ArticleSome Thoughts About Depression, Autism and Being an Introvert
I think I may have mentioned this before – I’m not going to go back and look – but over the last several years I’ve wondered if I have mild autism. It was once called aspersers, but I think they just...
View ArticleDepression: Two Triggers
This one is probably going to sound a little uniformed and scattered. Admittedly, I’ve been living with depression for a long time, but I’ve done far less research on it than I should have. At least...
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Gardening, 2019
It's 2019. It's hard to believe this is really a year, I mean one that exists. I remember looking at a book in the school library during my early years that told all about how things would be in the...
View ArticleDepression and Exercise
Tired topic, right? We've all heard that exercise might help fight depression. Most of us probably believe it, whether or not we practice it.I came across this article published yesterday in the...
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The Legitimacy of Emotions
Here's a small thing about me. Whether it was intentional or not one of the lessons that my parents instilled in me was to stay out of the way. By most physical measures I'm an average guy - not too...
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