Storied Mind

NOTE: If you have trouble watching the video on this site, click here or on the link to Vimeo in the lower right corner of the image to see it on that site. This new post on Health Central brings together stories told by several spouses of veterans with combat PTSD about family life dominated [...]

Some Rights Reserved by |spoon| at Flickr A few months ago, Therese Borchard of Beyond Blue was describing in one of her insightful videos the nature of her belief in Catholicism. She had been accused of being a “cafeteria Catholic,” picking and choosing which of the Church’s teachings she would accept. She emphasized that she [...]

Some Rights Reserved by xip at Flickr WARNING: THIS POST HAS POSSIBLE TRIGGERS Anon for Now recently commented on the sense of renewal in life that served as a deterrent to suicide. This struck me as capturing the most baffling aspect of the temptation to end life. For what does the evidence of life on [...]

Christos Georghiou – Fotolia.com_ WARNING – THIS POST HAS POSSIBLE TRIGGERS. After a tough week with a lot of down time lost to pain of various sorts – as much mental as physical – I’ve been trying to draw on lessons friends have been sharing with me. They have been describing a deeper sense of [...]

In January 1841, Abraham Lincoln, then a state legislator in Illinois, wrote to his law partner about securing a post for a physician who was then treating him for a nervous disorder called hypochondriasis, or hypo for short, a condition we would call major depression. “I have, within the last few days, been making a [...]

Photo Credit: Derek Benjamin Lilly – MorgueFile Depression is a strange thing. No one seems able to explain exactly what it is, yet there is no doubting the reality of its pain. I've had it with me since boyhood, though at that time, I was years away from even hearing the term, let alone getting [...]