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depression

  • Fallen — Forlorn — Forsaken

    As I approach my 55th birthday this weekend, I really cannot tell if I am getting depressed or just bored in my situation. So much feels like “going through the motions.” After 25 years wandering along the margins of academia,… Continue reading

    Fallen — Forlorn — Forsaken

  • Magical Voluntarism

    …magical voluntarism is also an indication of desperation. The Deal or No Deal situation is a horrible example of a more general situation. We have as little control over our lives as contestants do over what is in that box.… Continue reading

    Magical Voluntarism

  • New eBook: Bridging the Bipolar Gap by Dawn Figueroa

    At the age of 24 Dawn was preparing to move to Colorado with her boyfriend when she was overtaken by a manic episode which included severe anxiety, hallucinations, and paranoia. She recalls driving around a hospital parking lot debating whether… Continue reading

    New eBook: Bridging the Bipolar Gap by Dawn Figueroa

  • the escape from reality

    Originally posted on coromandal: Here is the economist John K. Galbraith making two more excellent points about the popularity and insanity of speculation.  He describes two reasons why after a bubble bursts — as it did in a spectacular fashion that… Continue reading

    the escape from reality

  • America in ruins | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

    Photographers Daniel Barter and Daniel Marbaix toured the United States to capture crumbling buildings that were once schools, prisons and asylums. Their images range from the majestic to the eerie, and show worlds once full of life, now long forgotten.… Continue reading

  • Melancholia: Certain Tracks and Uncertain Treks

    Melancholia, always patient watcher, lurking in backgrounds, awaiting a moment when Sophia is not watching o’er my mind: Then, darkness. — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) April 23, 2013 Flow the words from my fingers through the medium, plastic metal silicone… Continue reading

    Melancholia: Certain Tracks and Uncertain Treks

  • A Boon of Dandelions 6

    One of those days, the kind where the full joyous light of the day before waned and eclipsed to melancholy. Discussions in and out of class of superstructural boundaries that impress and compress, beneath a veil of peace, pushing the… Continue reading

    A Boon of Dandelions 6