Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Christmas time is a busy time of the year for malls, elves, and postal workers, but, despite the myth, it is not a busy time for us shrinks. Actually, it’s April. Nonetheless, there is something about this time of year that makes it hard, especially inContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Bright Ideas for Treating the Winter Blues”
Category Archives: Depression
The Shrink’s Links: Nadia Bolz Weber
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Nadia Bolz Weber is a foul-mouthed, tattooed, former comic, turned preacher. Read about why she calls her depression Francis. Click here to go to the site.
When Madness Takes Cover
So, you’ve stopped drinking, or drugging, or gambling, or sleeping around. Your depression seems to have lifted. You haven’t been violent. Your anxiety no longer makes all the decisions. You’re up in the morning and dressed when you need to be. The madness seems to have gone away. Has it, really? Madness takes cover sometimesContinue reading “When Madness Takes Cover”
What is Madness?
Someone asked why the name of this blog is Madness 101. Shouldn’t I call it Mental Illness 101? Isn’t mental illness the proper, politically correct term? It is, but it’s not really mental illness that I’m writing about. I’m writing about the related subject of madness. Illness is something that happens to you beyond yourContinue reading “What is Madness?”
The Shrink’s Links: Lincoln’s Depression
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Lincoln’s Great Depression Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life, and if he were alive today, his condition would be treated as a “character issue”—that is, as a political liability. His condition was indeed a character issue: it gave him the tools to save theContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Lincoln’s Depression”
The Shrink’s Links: Old Man Gloom
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you were amused by the post I wrote on Keith’s Crock of Shit, then wait till you get a load of what they do in Santa Fe. Every year, the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe, New Mexico constructs a huge effigy of Zozobra (the SpanishContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Old Man Gloom”
The Shrink’s Links: Sunbathing in the Rain
Bringing you the best of mental health and relationship articles on the internet. Today’s link from the shrink is: Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book About Depression The Welsh poet, Gwyneth Lewis, wrote this memoir about recovering from depression Click here to go to the link Related articles The Shrink’s Links: How to beContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Sunbathing in the Rain”
The Shrink’s Links: The Mental Illness Happy Hour
Bringing you the best of mental health and relationship articles on the internet. Today’s link from the shrink is: The Mental Illness Happy Hour Related articles The Shrink’s Links: How to be an Introvert The Shrink’s Links: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Shrink’s Links: Joy Whack-a-Mole Hyperbole and a Half: how one ofContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Mental Illness Happy Hour”
The Shrink’s Links: Cure Together
Bringing you the best of mental health and relationship articles on the internet. Today’s link from the shrink is: Cure Together Here’s an interesting idea. Get a bunch of people together that have the same condition and have them report on what actually works to treat it. Are you depressed? Exercise, adequate sleep, and talkContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Cure Together”
The Shrink’s Links: Hyperbole and a Half
Bringing you the best of mental health and relationship articles on the internet. Today’s link from the shrink is: Hyperbole and a Half This has got to be the most hilarious blog ever made by a depressive. Here, she improves on the pain rating scale you see in doctor’s offices. Click here to go toContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Hyperbole and a Half”
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