Home : updates for February through August 2011 Has not been a good year so far. Spent most of it so far crippled with depression (even worse than usual) and then hospitalised for blood clots on my lungs (pulmonary embelism). On the plus side, albeit in a very unhealthy manner, I’ve lost 4 or 5 […]
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway. Empowering yourself to escape depression.
As you may know if you follow Ackadia, I’ve been struggling with ill-health for several years now and spells of sometimes suicidal levels of chronic depression, the last – current – spell being especially bad, probably the worst. Details don’t matter but I had myself put in hospital before I got any worse and am […]
Depression and breaking points. The cycle of hope and despair
You know in all the ‘action movies’ where the besieged heroes are valiantly crossing the decrepit rope bridge, rotten boards breaking off and falling hundreds of feet down into the chasm, rope or vines on the main cable coming apart, one strand at a time? Well, that’s life. Stuff happens. You get over it. Sometimes […]
Depression is the new in thing?
You have to laugh how all of a sudden it almost seems fashionable to be “depressed”. You can almost hear the PR people and ‘celebrity’ agents minds ticking over with this… Agent: “Have you seen the coverage Catherine Zeta-Jones is getting? Get out there now and admit you have a problem” (a through z-list star) […]
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