According to a new study by IBM and Seriosity, online role playing games are shaping the next generation of corporate leaders, revealing similar qualities in effective leaders in the distributed, global workforce and players of immersive, multi-player online games. “What we have found is that success as a business leader may depend on skills as [...]
“Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning, Oh! How I’d love to remain in bed For the hardest blow of all is to hear the bugler call: ‘You’ve got to get up, you’ve got to get up, You’ve got to get up this morning!’” I may be the only person my age [...]
Why is Sunday night the cruelest night of the whole week to a person with depression? You would think that all nights would be bad with depression, which is basically true. But I think, without a doubt, Sunday nights are the worst. I remember that when I was depressed, Sunday nights seemed like the absolute [...]
Here are some more pictures I took in There.com: The Astrology Pavilion A pretty soap bubble in someone’s garden: And a greenhouse with flowers:
I spent most of Mother’s Day in the hospital. Below you can see the picture of my poor baby, Lawrence, hooked up to an IV. He had been feverish (up past 104 degrees) and throwing up the previous week. We had taken him to his pediatrician two days after it started. He found that both [...]
Over the years, since I first set up a chat room on my Web site for people with depression, I’ve had to take a lot of elements into consideration that many chat room hosts do not. If you’re running a chat room centered on a non-mental health topic, it’s fairly easy. Get a critical mass [...]
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), a personality disorder that is often accompanied by depression, is considered the incurable cancer of mental health, at least in its moderate to severe forms. However, I recently read a book that showed there may be more hope for successful treatment than is generally believed. Read on
Relationships with our partners can be complicated when both people are mentally and emotionally healthy. When one person becomes depressed, it can play havoc with the dynamics of a relationship, even one that was previously stable. As the person on “the outside,” it may be hard to understand what your partner is going through, unless [...]
Soon after I created my website Wing of Madness in 1995, I wrote an article about women and depression. At that time it was believed that women suffer from depression about twice as often as men do, although no one was sure why. Some hypotheses posed biological reasons, such as greater incidence of sexual assault [...]
