Recent news in the survivor community has reminded me of something I wrote over 5 years ago when Joe Paterno passed away. I’m not going to get into the details of what happened and to who, because I wasn’t involved in it, and while I am vaguely familiar with some of the people involved, it’s…
I’ve mentioned this in the past, but in the last week, I’ve had another stark reminder that not everyone is in a place where they can simply share with their social networks the fact that they are a survivor of childhood abuse, or are dealing with mental health issues. If you’ll allow me to quote…
The other day, my friend Hannah, who is a runner in the very real sense, (she’s run the Boston Marathon, as opposed to the “runner” I am, where I run out for pizza.) posted something to her Instagram account about her recovery from an ankle injury that I thought was beautiful: Injury continues to teach…
Being a tech and social media geek means that I’m always playing around with new things. In the interest of doing different things with social media, I’ve created a new Instagram account for this site. It won’t necessarily have things that are shared anywhere else, but it will be a way to share some different…
Earl K. Long Hospital, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Jan. 1997. Many people who’ve been through mental health issues, addiction, and so on, refer to “rock bottom”, that one place in time when things got so bad, they couldn’t get any worse. For me, that was Jan 1997. My marriage had just ended, and I quit therapy…
When stress got to be too much for TED Fellow Sangu Delle, he had to confront his own deep prejudice: that men shouldn’t take care of their mental health. In a personal talk, Delle shares how he learned to handle anxiety in a society that’s uncomfortable with emotions. As he says: “Being honest about how…
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