I like this.

Am I the only person in the UK to suffer summer s.a.d?
I'm talking depression not just hating this current stupidly hot weather.
I want to hibernate in a freezer and come out in September/October

You might like this blog post about depression.

i posted this to my own journal and sammason suggested i share it here:

“Is everything okay?” Anne asked me. She sat at our counter, and I stood on the other side, next to the microwave, watching my bowl of soup slowly turn around inside it ( Read more... )

this is a post by the lovely woman (allie) who writes the "hyperbole and a half" blog. she's gone the last 18 months with depression, and this is about her slog upwards from the bottom ( Read more... )

I've written before on this comm about Jane Powell's 'Meditations for Women'. The LJ user who posts these daily meditations is a member of friendly_crips and she tells me that she likes my snark. So here goes: I don't like the 'meditation' that I'll quote below. Some of it's good enough but I don't like the implication that depression is just a 'feeling' that ( Read more... )