BREAKING: Loneliness Found to Increase Breast Cancer Risk

When I as four years old, I was at my mother’s bedside. Piercing her left arm at the elbow she had a long needle attached to the end of a clear plastic tube. The tube dripped a clear fluid into Mom’s arm at the rate of a slightly leaky faucet in an old house.
She [...]

How to Master Stress, Anxiety and Depression

Do you realize that if you are depressed at night, you’ll almost certainly be anxious in the morning? The opposite is also true

Do you realize that if you are depressed at night, you’ll almost certainly be anxious in the morning? The opposite is also true. What a vicious cycle – just plain mean.
If you are [...]

Women Who Take Antidepressants after Menopause Increase Their Risk of Stroke and Death – Harvard

“Since the use of antidepressants has increased greatly in recent years and since older women are also at risk for cardiovascular disease, a team of researchers from several academic medical centers examined the link between antidepressant use and cardiovascular disease in such patients.”

…Their findings are not conclusive but may signify a need for additional attention [...]

SAD? Holiday Blahs, or Seasonal Depression – Which Is It?

Seasonal Affective Disorder is an often overlooked condition because people tend to think that it makes sense to be down during the stressful, cold holidays. While holiday misery is never far off for those of us who have to interact with other human beings on a daily basis, SAD is something different altogether and [...]

The Single Biggest Thing You Didn’t Know About Depression or Anxiety

For some reason, anxiety carries less social stigma than depression. You may feel like less of a leper admiting to your anxiety than to your depression. Anxiety conjures associations of something dramatic — maybe even interesting. Depression only calls to mind soiled Kleenex and someone who will drain the life force out of you by [...]

The Partial Road Chapter Eight

Toward the end of first grade, Mr. Neenan took us up to 6th grade history, science, and fractions. When Mom saw what her six year old son could do, she wept. (continued from chapter seven)
I didn’t know what the hell was happening.

But Mom wept

I get perfect scores on every test and quiz. I could out-school [...]

The Partial Road Chapter Seven

Mom had a way of knowing the future. Even though Mom and Dad hated each other, Mom would ask me to listen to Dad. She would tell me to ask him to teach me carpentery. She would tell me to get Dad to take me on hikes. I once found a seashell on Palomar Mountain. [...]