My depression and what I did to end it
Updated February 6, 2012. My depression lasted from junior high until I was about 31. I realized by ninth grade that it was not event- or environment-based. At around 30, after 18 months on...
View ArticleSeven fomenters of brain fog
Several factors combined together to cause me years of spaciness and difficulty concentrating. Highlights of this period included giving the wrong last name when called on in class and almost getting...
View ArticleThings that still mess up my mood
This was adapted from a post on my older blog, Blessed Depth. I’ve written elsewhere about how I threw off the yoke of my decades-long depression about 15 years ago, but a few things still trip me up....
View ArticleTwo months of experiments with melatonin supplements
In another attempt to kill my insomnia I revisited melatonin supplements a few months ago. I had tried them 15 years ago, once, when I was sleeping three hours a night, whereupon I slept for 24 hours....
View ArticleWake therapy (staying up all night) for depression
After a reader pointed me to a New York Times article on chronotherapy — using light exposure and waking times to affect mood — I ordered one of the publications it referred to: Chronotherapeutics for...
View ArticleFive sessions in the Harmonic Egg
One of the trippiest and most pleasant treatments I’ve ever tried, the Harmonic Egg allowed me to get some peace of mind back after a long period of that good ole 2020s stress. (I have no affiliation...
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