I wanted to remind folks who suffer from treatment-resistant depression of the success rate as reported in the Johns Hopkins White Papers: If you’re on an antidepressant and it’s not working, don’t give up on it: You may need a higher dose, a longer duration of therapy, a different drug altogether, or a combination of…

Mahatma Gandhi once said that “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” I have benefited from that advice, for sure, especially in the months that I was crawling out of a very severe depression. An expert on the perks that come with helping others is bestselling author…

“Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?” –Maurice Freehill “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” –Hebrews 11:1 “That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is…

Caught in a terrible conundrum of whether I should break my diet over New York Super Fudge Chunk or Chunky Monkey at Ben and Jerry’s yesterday, I was reading the different fliers pinned to the community bulletin board inside this 200 square feet of ice-cream heaven.   One flier read: “Got the blues? Learn to…

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