depression Archive

  • Out with a Swirl

    Out with a Swirl

    Can one respond to suffering the way a cat responds to falling off a roof?  While meditating one night recently,...
  • Drug Your Emotions Away

    Drug Your Emotions Away

    Can we use drugs to numb our emotional pain without losing our souls?
  • Cut Off: The Role of Compassion in Social Death

    Cut Off: The Role of Compassion in Social Death

    Among the most excruciating suffering one can endure is social death. Where does compassion fit in?
  • Questioning Quarantine

    Questioning Quarantine

    A conversation in a cafe makes me question the belief that severe depression means love and affection are off limits.
  • Paradoxes of the Path

    Paradoxes of the Path

    What if some experiences that look like personal failures are actually markers of spiritual growth?
  • Happy Crazy Eight Day

    Happy Crazy Eight Day

    An adventure in facing worst fears. This particular monster? Psychiatry. I enter with stigma and exit with side effects.
  • Transforming Rejection Sensitivity

    Transforming Rejection Sensitivity

    In an era of waning social ties, sensitivity to rejection is common. An article in Psychology Today offers solutions.
  • Not Enough to Be Numb

    Not Enough to Be Numb

    When weeks of grief and turmoil are broken by a neutral calm, the relief is welcome, but the journey is...
  • At War with Depression

    At War with Depression

    You may have won many battles with depression. Why can’t you win the war? A new way to...
  • You Ain’t Heavy

    You Ain’t Heavy

    Yesterday morning, I was on my way to spend time with a friend who was offering companionship during a time...