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On a blog I write for called “Get Off My Lawn,” I’m pretty grumpy about Valentine’s Day. But hey, that’s the point of GOML.


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I’m sure I’m opting in for a whole world of pain (and trolling) here. But I can’t help myself. Because this article  came onto my radar today, I read a couple of articles today about Virginia’s ban on gun sales to the mentally ill. That link is to a 2007 Washington Post article. In ( Read more... )

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Part 1: They Meet

Ok, Not Really.

Identifying Unhealthy Patterns of Anger and Self Pity

I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.    - D.H. Lawrence

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How about this: Don’t Bother.

I read a response to a parenting article on Happily Childfree today.  The author posts a response to a parenting article entitled “How to Stay Friends With Parents.” (The grammar in some of these articles needs to be ignored, by the way, possibly even ( Read more... )

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If normal behaviour is increasingly being categorised as mental illness th
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“Achieving Your Goal, or The Care and Feeding of Your Elephant:  Part Three of How I Fight My Mood Disorder Every Day “


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“Making Peace With Your Elephant: Part Two of How I Fight My Mood Disorder Every Day”

When I was 21, I had been in treatment for depression on and off for about six years. At one appointment with my psychiatrist, I told her, “Well, I feel miserable. I feel like something is ( Read more... )

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Or, “How I Fight My Mood Disorder Every Day: An Article in Three Parts”

I was originally going to complete my site makeover before I made this post,
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