Things I needed to learn before I could be “healthy” Part 2:
90-95% of the things that go on in the world are completely beyond my control. Spending a lot of emotional energy worrying about them is a waste because none of that energy is going to change the outcomes of those things, but it is going to make me manic. Better to expend my energy on the things I can control and can have an impact on.
A while ago, I was having a conversation about food, and trying to explain to someone why I didn’t like many foods. When I was a kid, medical studies had not yet shown, or gotten widely distributed, the link between second hand smoke and ear infections in children. Since I grew up in the 70s,…
I caught a bit of this documentary this afternoon on our local PBS station. Not enough to write a review on the News and Reviews site, but enough to have picked up a couple of interesting tidbits. One was a discussion with a doctor about how each case of depression is different, and has to…
You know, I’ve read a lot of political blogs, from all sides of the political spectrum and I’m struck by just how angry and hateful a lot of people are. Life’s too short to waste so much energy being angry and hating. All that bile and angst just ends up hurting you in the end….
This month, as survivors, let’s strive to do three things in this order. See ourselves as deserving to have our needs met, learning to care for ourselves, and striving to love others by giving them what they need.
Psych Central today mentioned a Men’s Health article written by Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows fame. It caught my eye because, in it, Adam talks about his struggles with dissociation, something that I have had problems with in the past, and something I don’t tend to see written about very often, outside of the more…
Pin Maybe you have seen the headlines in the past week or so about a new discovery, an almost instant cure for depression, sleep deprivation! Now, if you only saw the headlines, and we know that many, many people only read a headline before acting on the information, or sharing the information, you might have missed…
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