Tag: Getting Help For Depression
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Depression Is Like “Thought Cancer”
Slowly — too slowly — our culture is beginning to understand that depression isn’t just one person feeling blue because their life sucks. It’s a health issue with causes and effects that can be treated and ameliorated. The human brain is, by far, the most complex, complicated organ in our bodies. It’s also the organ…
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What Being Deeply Depressed Taught Me About Life — And Being Happy
Three days before Christmas 2016, I came within literal inches of harming myself, perhaps fatally. It was pure impulse — a flash of self-directed anger that I’d been building toward for a decade. Oh, the irony… even as I plotted to off myself, I didn’t know (or admit to myself) WHY I felt this terrible…
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Notes From A Former Drinker — Drinking Culture Is Really, Really, REALLY Stupid
Perspective is the damnedest thing. For the overwhelming majority of my adult life, I was a drinker. I never thought of myself as an alcoholic though I drank at least 2 glasses of wine every day. Religiously. I prided myself on making not merely a good martini but a great one (I still do as…
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The Urge To “Off Yourself” Explained
Three days before Christmas 2016, I was close enough to killing myself that my two GPs wanted to hospitalize me. But I refused. I had gone there to take one last ‘stab’ at saving myself. I was at such a nakedly emotional, impulsive place that I was capable at any moment of acting out in…