Storied Mind

Some Rights Reserved by woodleywonderworks at Flickr Quite some time ago, Immi tagged me on Facebook with the 100-facts-about-me meme. Apologies for not following through, but I doubt I can count that high, let alone think of that many facts, at least true ones. But I’ll give it a try, at least a partial try. [...]

Some Rights Reserved by (le)doo at Flickr. Medication is a hot subject on the internet, so I need to say up front that I’m not opposed to the use of medications to treat long-term depression. I have a live-and-let-live attitude about treatment. Finding anything that works for each person is the key, with or without [...]

Some Rights Reserved by boskizzi at Flickr. I’ve written a lot about the form of depression in which men look outside themselves to find the cause for an inner pain that simply can’t be faced. They may feel anger, rage, a longing to act out fantasies, or a compulsion to blame and abuse those closest [...]

Some Rights Reserved by nyki_m at Flickr Some of the comments on the last post in this series hit hard on two issues. First is the question of personal choice: is a man supposed to escape responsibility for destructive behavior by attributing everything to depression? The answer is no! Depression is never an excuse for [...]

Welcome to this new version of Storied Mind. We have just changed to the WordPress platform, and we’re happy to say that Piotr Polak, the designer of this beautiful theme, has also shifted. Please let me know if you run into any problem, especially with links that don’t take you where they should. Either leave [...]

Some Rights Reserved by lepiaf.geo at Flickr About a year ago, I wrote a series of posts about my experience with the fantasies of a better life that often prompt depressed men to leave their families. You can find the first of those stories here, here and here. Those brief pieces tell only a small [...]