About two weeks ago I hurt my wrist. So I missed three workout sessions because, really, if you've hurt your wrist you can't lift weights. The third session I missed because I was depressed, more than the wrist. But Wednesday I lifted and . . . hurt my wrist, again. D'oh! Today, I cut out the exercise that put the most stress on my wrist - ( Read more... )

I'm listening to Thriller right now. I've been going through the admittedly few Michael Jackson albums I have. A lot of people - and I will dare and say white people - are going to view the death of Michael Jackson with sniggering contempt. They're going to focus on the horrorshow that his life has been for the past couple of decades. None of ( Read more... )

I suffer from depression and anxiety and I'm an atheist scientific materialist. One of the things that this means is I think the body is just, y'know, chemicals and chemical interactions, including the brain and, thus, the mind. One of the most difficult parts in discussing my depression and anxiety with people is that almost everyone think that ( Read more... )

I suffer from pretty serious depression and anxiety. I used to think that, y'know, I would get seriously depressed about the same as other people. But recently something happened. I started to take something for anxiety and depression and . . . for a while I felt a little weird, and then I felt better. Indeed, the change was so profound that ( Read more... )