I was immeasurably relieved to see a study last week in the American Journal of Psychiatry that indicated that suicide rates dropped among depressed people soon after they started treatment with antidepressants or psychotherapy. You might wonder why I say I was relieved instead of just pleased. Mainly because SSRI antidepressants have been taking it [...]
I had depression as a child. It went undiagnosed, since I grew up in the seventies and no one knew that children could be clinically depressed. I finally was diagnosed and successfully treated at age 27, but by then my childhood, adolescence and young adulthood had been profoundly affected. I fervently wish that it had [...]
Just in case you can’t afford an iPhone or think it’s not worth the money (my hand’s up on that one) here are instructions for knitting yourself one.
I have been playing computer games since the late 1980s. The first computer game I played, Sleuth, was composed of ASCII graphics and text. You were trapped, Agatha Christie style, in a mansion with several other houseguests, one of whom was a killer. It was fun, but you definitely couldn’t say that the graphics were [...]
