Finally got my meds dialed in by a real psychiatrist ( Read more... )

So we are constantly looking for what is wrong,
constantly creating new crises so we can rise to
the occasion. To ego, that's survival.

It is very important
that something be wrong
so we can continue to survive it.

from There is Nothing Wrong With You

you came
and made
my house
our home
you left

making
our home
my asylum

-Peter McWilliams

So it's pretty clear that I have been in a major depressive episode since at least mid-November. Never been in such depths for so long. Incredible pain, nothing I would wish on my worst enemy. But it has lifted a notch or two in the past week. Relief can never come quickly enough, but it's creeping up at least.

I have been given a new med to try, by ( Read more... )

"You know how they‘re always saying ‘when God closes one door, He opens another one?' Well, no one ever talks about the hell in the hallway while you're waiting for that other door to open."

-Katharine Brooks, on rejection

Reading an American Psychology Association description of AEDP and came across this description of the typical client for whom AEDP works ( Read more... )

Every once in a while, I'll stumble across a psychology concept that really resonates with me.

10 years ago, it was the work of Carl Jung, via the book The Manticore by Robertson Davies ( Read more... )

She was the glue that held my life together.

Small wonder that it feels like my life has fallen apart.

The Yoga Wall Pelvic Swing ( Read more... )

Wednesday evening my quest for nutritional supplements took me to Pharmaca in the Rockridge district of Oakland ( Read more... )