depression | depression
Jan.05.2013
We are not born with low self-esteem. Look at any child during the first 18 months of their life. They are giggly, they respond to smiles, to their name and other words that are now a part of their life; they learn to walk, to drink out of a bottle, eat with a spoon, burst into laughter, and a...
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Jan.02.2013
The body lies still before the panic. The face get’s numb, the hand’s, the full metal jacket. The attack is breathless. Feeing like heart failure. Leaving the body lost. Bi Polar is like an animal clawing it’s self out it’s cage. In summary, thing’s are more...
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Dec.05.2012
You know, I can see why people contemplate suicide.
I even can see why they just flee, take off, create a new life.
I can understand why some decide to live outside of suicide, as hermits, or homeless and on the streets, coping day by day.
You look at the horizon and there's no change...
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Nov.29.2012
He goes to the hospital, lets them look him over, look into and through him, turn him over and inside out, look and look again until, finally satisfied, the doctor gives him the thumbs-up and the nurse winks and smiles, knowing more about him than even the woman waiting...
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Nov.26.2012
photo: Movie poster, from its Wikipedia page
A few comments about Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, which you should go see:
--I was pleasantly surprised to find myself sitting in the second row from the front for this film. Spielberg film or not, historical films or biopics do not...
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Nov.23.2012
How can I eat turkey without remembering Thanksgivings past, the way we went for the border, the need to escape the American style of feasting and the knowledge of his birthday coming around another year? Another reminder that he was, yes, still alive, whether he wanted to be or not. For this was...
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Nov.18.2012
Just a few thoughts at the darkening of the year. This is a hard time for many of us. First and foremost, days are shortening. In America, we have exited Daylight Savings Time, so instead of the long slow dusk we’ve been used to all summer, it’s pitch black before we even get our dinner. The warmth...
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Oct.22.2012
He sits hunched at the kitchen table in a dark cap and sunglasses tinted orange. A murky blue curtain on the window opposite is part way drawn to reveal only a slice of the waking morning.
He’s already thinking about how he must drive to the supermarket today. His eyes dart around him. What if they...
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Aug.21.2012
Is “What did you surf last night?” akin to a metaphysical query? Is your use of the internet no different from how you introspect and the answers you get from it?
Scientific research has once again stretched it, although now it concerns what we do every day. I am not dismissing the...
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Aug.13.2012
A Romney presidency, especially if coupled with Republican control of both houses of Congress, would create such economic catastrophe that people would no longer be able to feed their puppies.
Consequently, Mitt's secret offshore...
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