Depression

  • Sickness and depression

    I’ve been sick the last couple of weeks. Nothing major, just one of those stubborn head colds that seems to stay with you forever! It’s getting better slowly, I even managed to make it to work every day this week after taking two days off last week. The thing I most hate about it, is…

  • Bright light treatment

    Thanks to a link from Doug Klippert, I found this article about something called “Bright Light Therapy” which can be used to effectively change the timing of the body clock. “Probably the greatest use of bright light therapy is for the treatment of winter depression, especially in very northern countries which have little sunlight in…

  • Personality profile

    It occured to me yesterday while I was filling out a 200 question “personality profile” as part of my job search, that I’ll never be able to sit and take that sort of things without thinking about the hours and hours spent filling out similar profiles for depression screening, etc. back when I first started…

  • Anger

    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….

  • Depression and faith

    Now some of you may know that I’ve certainly had my personal run-ins with religious leaders and Christians over the issue of depression and faith. For those of you just tuning in, there have been a large number of folks who have been of the belief that depression is just a sign of weak faith…