Snapshots Where would be without our gal pals, our BFF’s, our sherpas? Who else would we hang out with, eat cake and dance with? With whom would we dare to dress up as hippies and Trekkies for Halloween? Who else would laugh uproariously at our goofy, stupid jokes and not laugh at all when we [...]
Kiss My Derriere There are, in fact, times when feeling bitchy is a sign of progress, such as after spending weeks or months feeling numb, for instance. Call it apathy, lethargy, atrophy or entropy, but that state of unrelieved inertia is one of the hallmark symptoms of depression. Well, at least my depression anyway. When [...]
Shadows & Fog Let me tell you something. The next time you find out that someone you know has wrangled with clinical depression and come out the other side intact, immediately offer your sincerest congratulations. Because you are in the presence of heroic courage. You are in the presence of someone who has waged a [...]
One good way to make someone crazy is to continually invalidate their experience. There are many ways to accomplish this, all of them mild to moderate variations on “gaslighting” someone, or “ruthlessly manipulating an individual, for nefarious reasons, into believing something other than the truth.” I’ve been on the receiving end of several versions, more [...]
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