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Forgetting how to be well
11.05.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Forgetting how to be well

From Maria at Crooked Timber: So why do we find it so damn hard to offer heartfelt sympathy and support to people with mental illness? Because we think that these diseases are in some way not ‘real’, and that the people who suffer from them have somehow invited them in or allowed them to stay. […]
On noonday demons and being sparse
11.04.03 | Permalink | 3 Comments

I’ve been sparse around here lately, mainly because of a bout with depression and a bad chest cold. From an evolutionary perspective, it seems that depression is an exagerrated coping mechanism, or, rather, a mechanism that kicks in after you’re coping mechanisms have up and quit. How you’re predisposed or not to depression seems to […]

Forgetting how to be well