Monthly Archives: June 2008

Better Living Through Chemistry

Per my psychiatrist, I’m now in partial remission of my chronic major depression, which I’ve been treated for over the last ten weeks. [Yeah, I'm one of those people who looks at the DSM-IV codes written on my chart after every session, memorizes it, and then goes home to look up the code's meaning [...]

Opening a Closed Book

Two posts back to back? Well, in the spirit of personal transparency …
I’ve obviously had a category called depression for some time. Typically I’ve written about depression as it was happening as a form of therapy—acknowledging the problem is how I’d pull myself out of the funk I was in. [Or so [...]

Closing an Open Book

The hardest lesson that I’m learning in my life right now is to keep others’ concern for privacy above my own desire for transparency. In many ways, this shouldn’t be difficult for me—I already have to compartmentalize a lot of things for work. [Example: I'll tell you who I work for and what [...]