Tag Archives: mental health

Depression is humiliating.

All I can say to this is yes. Yes. Yes and thank you, Pearl, and @kateordeath for pass­ing it along (the arti­cle, not the depres­sion). Yes. Exactly. And I am sorry. And thank you every­one and I am sorry. Depres­sion is humil­i­at­ing. It turns intel­li­gent, kind peo­ple into zom­bies who can’t wash a dish or change

Comfortable Funk

It has been one of those week­ends: rain most of the time, and when not rain­ing, windy, chilly and over­cast. Some­thing about these week­ends makes me slip into a com­fort­able melan­choly. I got out the deck of funk flash­cards and drilled myself: What am I doing? What have I done? Even worse, what haven’t I

There is a comfort in the worries of others

I have been asked by many peo­ple whether becom­ing involved in the angst of oth­ers doesn’t exac­er­bate my depres­sion. I have, for most of my life, answered, “for the most part, no!” I never had, how­ever, a good rea­son to give to explain this per­sonal phe­nom­e­non, until recently. I have dis­cov­ered that, if some­one you

Surrealist Cluedo

This week, Peter Segal set up per­fect exam­ple of the human desire to fill in holes. In this case, how­ever, the sleuthing drive was put to cre­ative use. On the 13th of Decem­ber — the night of the Chicago Com­mu­nity Trust’s 96th anniver­sary event — Mr. Segal was serendip­i­tously in a posi­tion to take a pic­ture