Some Rights Reserved by capsicina at Flickr A friend sends out a poetry email every Monday, and here’s what he sent this week. Pablo Neruda, toward the end of his life, was invited to read in Caracas, Venezuela, in the great national theater there. The theater was filled with people celebrating him as the icon […]
Recovery
Ending Depression’s Dreams
Depression takes away of lot of life. There were times I’ve been so lost I felt no strength to stop it and no method to uncover a buried self. Everything vital was invisible. All I could see were all my failings and uselessness. The only way out was in fantasies and dreams. And that was […]
Brief Dreams of Recovery – 2
In this dream, I heard myself saying: I am waking up out of the earth. I wasn’t at all sure what that meant. Was it supposed to be some mythic arising, or was it just another way of seeing myself as so much dirt? Then I realized I’d been sleeping outside – in the ground. […]
Brief Dreams of Recovery – 1
Dreams are what they are, and I won’t try to explain them in rational or symbolic terms. The feeling of this one was all good. It came as recovery was at last getting to be the real thing. After a long and baffling night I was running back to my hotel room. I was feeling […]
Making Decisions When Depressed
Like so many, I experience depression in various forms, yet each in its own way knocks out the decision control center in my mind. At times, I scramble in anxiety and can’t focus enough to pick out one among many possibilities. At other times, I don’t care about choosing – or anything else for that […]
When Depressed, Do You Feel Ugly?
I’ve published another post at Health Central. The opening is below with a link to the full post. Quite a while back, there was a TV series about a group of nurses in the Vietnam War. It was called China Beach. In one episode of this powerful drama, a soldier who had lost a leg […]
