

Is Wellness Well Enough Alone?
On first blush, my story is not at all unique: - Aspire to be a doctor from early childhood - Work my tail off in high school and college to


Portrait of the artist as a young man (?)
It can't all be Depression this and Depression that, right? Sometimes you need to laugh a little, and so I dug up this little gem...


A View From The Belfry
You know what’s screwed up about me? I'll tell you what’s screwed up about me, but first a little background. If you’ve been reading thi


Cause And Defect
Part 4 in the series on what it's like to go through mental illness. In an earlier post, Don’t Worry Be Crappy, I discussed the problem with linear thinking when dealing with people with mental illness. You want things to make sense. You want things to go the way you plan, but mental health doesn’t see things like that. It cares not for your step by step instructions. You wish to understand why a person behaves a certain way one day, and inexplicably inconsistently subsequent


Firmware Update: Midlife-Oasis v 2.0
Indeed this is the re-boot of Midlife-Oasis. I guess my midlife crisis is having a midlife crisis. Oh don't worry. It's still just m