Time Does Not Heal All Wounds An interesting little excerpt from the book Good Grief: Healing Through the Shadow of Loss by Deborah Morris Corvell. Not incredibly well-written, but I found the heart of it to be good. Current Mood:…
Bush Being Treated for Paranoia and Depression
Capitol Hill Blue: Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior I’m the last one to think less of a person who is taking psychoactive medications to control depression or other conditions. In fact, I think it’s great that he’s…
Connection Between Clutter and Depression
Interesting article: The Clutter-Depression Connection The state of my home is an instant clue to how I’m feeling. If I’m in a pain flare or very depressed (and they’re usually linked), things go downhill quickly. We’ve decluttered a LOT in…
NOT Helpful Suggestions
Eunice Beck, RN, on Coping with Flares and Mental Health I’m having an invisible spell again, or at least my disease is. Let me try to explain. In the first place, I’m in a major flare, which isn’t helping my…
Depression Treatment News
Patients with severe depression improve using guidelines developed by UT Southwestern researchers That’s great. I wanna see the damned guidelines! I did check UT Southwestern’s site but didn’t find them posted in an obvious manner. I suppose they’ll be publishing…
PTSD & Fibromyalgia
Posttraumatic Stress, Fibromyalgia Linked Chronic Pain Condition Seen in Half of Veterans With PTSD I recently started thinking about FMS as possibly being the physical equivalent of PTSD. Your entire system is hypersensitive, which leads to all manner of problems.…
Medical Records Help?
GAH! Does anybody have any idea how I’d go about getting medical records from a hospital that closed in 1996? Surely their records had to go SOMEWHERE! I’ve talked to the state regulatory people, and they say most hospitals don’t…
Hello
Why yes, I am still capable of doing more than posting about what’s being said elsewhere. Really. I promise. It’s been a week. Actually, most of it has been reasonably good—there were two whole days in which I didn’t have…
Periodic Pimping of TheFerrett
Breaking Free of Depression
Infidelity
For some reason, I’m thinking about infidelity again. No, there hasn’t been any in our relationship recently—certainly not that I know of! But once it has happened, it isn’t possible to “forgive and forget.” Anybody who claims to have done…