Intensive Outpatient Program for Depression & Anxiety, Part 1
I completed an Intensive Outpatient Program for depression. This is how it went.
You Might Be Clinically Depressed If
You might be clinically depressed if: you're back on cigarettes or junk food or alcohol or shopping or whatever your addiction is that you've been trying to kick for decades. you can't concentrate on work for more than a few minutes at a time. the long minutes you...
“Off Their Meds” Jokes
On July 26th, Stephen Colbert commented on El Idiota's tweet that transgender people will no longer be allowed in the U.S. military. He said, "Today I really think he's off his meds because today he went from crazy to cruel." To anyone reading this: please stop making...
Weight Loosening
Here's an update on how my attempt to lose some fatness is going: it's...kind of...going. I’ve had some pretty discouraging weeks. This is what I filled them with: 1. I tried to exercise more, which is to say exercise at all. And then I stopped again. 2. Same old...
The Word “Lady,” Part One
Sexism lives deep in a society when people can’t see it in the words they use.
My Black Is Beautiful
"The Talk" is a TV commercial for Proctor & Gamble that shows conversations between Black parents and their Black children about the realities of their lives in the U.S. The ad was done by BBDO New York advertising agency and was released in July. Let us not...
Only Bad Owners
FICTION Sunlight skipped off the surface of the lake and pierced the eyes of the dog owners and their charges. "Oh, Dan," said Imelda. "The new laws about dogs who attack people are so strict. Don't you think?" Dan turned away from his Great Dane, who was tentatively...
Comfort
FICTION Laura knew as soon as she walked into Georgina’s bright apartment that her friend wasn’t having a good day. Georgina looked sad as she greeted Laura and led her to the brightly colored sofa. “What’s wrong?” Laura asked. Georgina’s face crumpled immediately....
El amanecer
Shrieking Dawn was a nutjob And even though she's dead is a nutjob still. But even if I can't get her gibbering chorus out of my head, I can at least stop dancing to it.
Comey Day
Maybe many are ignoring it, but on Thursday morning I watched James Comey's testimony before the senate and I noticed parallels in the dynamic between Trump and Comey and any sexual assault case. First, Comey said he never wanted to be physically alone with Trump and...
Still Fat
Here's some interesting stuff: 1. A 2008 documentary called My Big Fat Body shows comedian Frank Payne undergoing a series of tests to find out the health status of his over 300-pound body (over 160 kilos). If your Body Mass Index is over 30 (which mine is), it's a...
If They Died from Suicide
I've suffered from depression for most of my life and have had a couple of major episodes. There have been times when I decided dying would be better than living and while I'm not proud of that, I'm also not ashamed of it. My illness has caused lots of irrational...