Tag: depression
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Let Pain Be Your Guide: Suicidal Thoughts as the Catalyst for Change
In honor of National Suicide Prevention Day, I’m reposting an article I published on this blog on 23 July 2008. I’ve made no changes to the original article, and rather than posting a new photo of my own with pretty writing on it, I’ve elected to keep the original picture I used 5 years ago…
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Five Things, Sweetheart, Five Things
It was a difficult night. There was nothing left to say, nothing that I could say. My friend was hurting, and I the Fixer could not fix it. I’ve had enough of people intentionally dying around me this year, and I didn’t want to let another friend lapse into an uneasy silence that would be…
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The Numbing Effect
Some people don’t want you to be happy. I could pat you on the back and say something inane like, “Well, honey, those people aren’t really your friends.” But the trouble is, they ARE your friends. Your friends, your family, your coworkers, people you barely know. They tell you often that they want you to…
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Incense: The New Anti-Depressant
Certain types of incense make me feel calmer, others put me in the mood for loving, and some just remind me of the serenity and sacredness of home. Seems there’s some science now to back up my weird impressions. Discover Magazine reports (http://discovermagazine.com/2008/sep/26-smell-your-way-to-happiness) that at least one incense has uplifting effects in an article that…
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Is this Message for You? (Dark Days, Lunar Eclipse, August 2008)
Is this message for you? As my long-time readers know, I occasionally feel the need to give someone a “message.” Often I don’t understand the urge to write these words and have no idea what I’ll say until it’s on the screen in front of me or who it is that needs to read it.…
