Some Rights Reserved by Auntie K at Flickr So that was Christmas, or whatever you celebrate, … and what have you done? … It happens every December, the moods of so many darken in the midst of the season of joy, and bloggers write up their tip lists about how to survive the holidays. Depression […]
Archives for 2010
Top Depression Blog – 2010
I’m really pleased to report that Storied Mind has been honored for the second time by PsychCentral as one of the top ten depression blogs of the year. It’s especially meaningful to me because PsychCentral is the best site on the internet devoted entirely to mental health information for the public. Their Depression Guide is […]
Talking to Save Relationships and Talking to Walls
Image by nasrulekram I’ve written a pair of posts at Health Central about trying to explain what depression is like to family and close friends. The first one describes opening up in a way that’s helped me dispel the assumptions others been making about why I’ve changed so much. The second looks at what I […]
Surprised by Joy in the Lunch Room
A Brief History of My Meds
Over at Health Central, I’ve put up a post called My 20 Meds. It’s about the trial and error process I went through to find a medication for depression that gave me more help than harm. The interesting thing is that none of the newer antidepressants worked for very long. The most effective have belonged […]
Notebook: Do I Look for Rooms of Familiar Feelings?
Some Rights Reserved by uggboy at Flickr. Do feelings just happen or do they come because we go looking for them? Seth Godin is a famous marketing guru who occasionally hits something that goes beyond his usual domain of finding success in business. He kicks up dust by claiming that we choose to go places […]