Mental Health

How I finally learned to meditate

I had been trying to learn how to meditate for years unsuccessfully. There was just something in me…

A gift of stories

A few days ago I opened up to a friend about my sense of aloneness in this world. In return he told me a little story about me, and directed me to experience a little story about someone else. Those little stories gave me the psychic strength to pick myself back up to put myself back into the…

How a computer game can help better understand burnout

lessons learned from playing Civilization

Burnout is this phenomenon where people seem to mysteriously become dysfunctional. Sometimes it creeps up upon us and we miss the signs or…

Fighting hopelessness

why depression is so hard to recover from

To fight, there must be a hope that one day we may win the battle. That our lives can change for the better. That we can overcome whatever debilitating circumstances that triggered the depression…

Understanding mental health with systems thinking

a simple holistic perspective on the complexity and importance of mental health

There is a lot of misinformation on mental health. The science and research has been…

What does it mean to be depressed?

Questions and answers. Mostly answers.

Before we begin: this is not an attempt to provide answers for all forms of depression. I can only speak for myself.

You look cheerful, why do you…

On being chronically depressed and suicidal

on the life I could have lost, on the lives we could still be losing

A few days ago I told a roomful of people — both strangers and friends — that I am chronically depressed and…

Sharing myself like an open book

giving light to my own darkness

Piecing myself together after burnout

The process of finding the root cause and addressing it

I am gradually recovering from a period of burnout — I was still functional but there was a chronic fatigue that wouldn’t go away no matter how much I rested, apathy to things I used…