My childhood bedroom doesn’t exist anymore My parents sold the house when I was 19 There was an antique bedframe with a hidden compartment perfect for hiding scissors and safety pins and razorblades and a Keep Reading
Donald Trump Makes Me Feel Like I’m Dying: A PTSD Ele...
Well, the 2016 presidential election is finally over. Who could have predicted a year ago that for weeks the critical issues that face our country would take a back seat to demeaning tweets, “locker room” Keep Reading
Anne of Green Gables And Realistic Optimism
I’m going to be honest – I have not been doing well for the past month. This happens every fall when my depression rears it’s ugly head after a relatively peaceful summer. And with my Keep Reading
You’re Going to Have to Save Yourself: Judith and Rec...
The world in general does not really care about the mentally ill. This is a cold hard fact I have learned with each new diagnosis. And the “crazier” you are, the less people are likely Keep Reading
Lady Macbeth and Insomniac Realities
Very few people know true insomnia. And, as luck would have it, I am one of the chosen few. I have gone as long as 48 hours without being able to fall asleep. When I Keep Reading
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Horrible Judges, Memory, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Recently, a judge in California made a bad decision in a rape case. Make that a horrible decision. An unbelievably stupid decision. An incomprehensible decision. And a devastatingly cruel decision. For the victim . . Keep Reading
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Peter Pan and the Absence of Lost Girls
Virtually everyone knows the story of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. A spritely young boy shows up at a house in England where he meets a girl named Wendy and her two younger brothers. With the Keep Reading
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Persephone and Male Entitlement to Young Women
The story of Persephone is one of the most well known in the canon of Greek myths. Taken at face value, as it usually is, it is a clever creation myth that is used to Keep Reading
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Enda St. Vincent Millay and the Mundanity of Depression
It used to be that no one ever spoke of mental illness except in whispers. No one seemed to want to acknowledge its existence. Society as a whole shunned both the topic as well as Keep Reading
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Dorothy Parker and the Security in Suicide
My favorite poem of all time is Dorothy Parker’s Resume (you may also know it from the film Girl, Interrupted) Razors pain you Rivers are damp Acids stains you And drugs cause cramp Guns aren’t Keep Reading