Robin Williams Death as a Wake-Up Call – 12 Ways To Fight Depression

Depression is real, and many people deal with it daily... For some it is a manageable reality and to others it can be life ending. I think to some degree we all deal with it, I know I have... The fallout from depression of loved ones and people we admire such as Robin Williams leaves …

A Realistic, Encouraging, Compassionate, No-Nonsense, Research-Backed, Action-Oriented Guidebook to Managing Your Depression | The Art of Manliness

Everyone loves a good, clear, easily grasped narrative. “X leads to Y.” “A causes B.” But as we’ve seen over the course of this series, the nature of depression is simply too complex to follow a nice, neat storyline. In exploring the history of depression, we saw that the way we view melancholy today is …

Are You Depressed? The Symptoms of Male Melancholy | The Art of Manliness

So far we’ve discussed the history of depression, and explored its possible causes. Before we conclude this series next week with a guidebook on managing your melancholy, we of course need to stop to examine what depression actually looks like. How is it different from run-of-the-mill sadness, and how does it manifest itself, especially in …

Leashing the Black Dog: What Causes Depression? | The Art of Manliness

In our previous article in this series on the history of depression, we saw that its origins have alternatively been chalked up to a number of theories: excess of “black bile” in the body, the sin of sloth, wrong thinking, enervating luxury, conflicts in the subconscious, and a biological imbalance in the brain. Some of those …

Leashing the Black Dog: The History of Depression | The Art of Manliness

A history of depression? Doesn’t depression just exist, like cancer? You can’t really write a history of cancer; perhaps how it’s been treated or diagnosed, but you can’t write a history of a disease in and of itself. It just is, right? In the West, we commonly think of depression as just another biological illness …

Leashing the Black Dog: My Struggle With Depression | The Art of Manliness

Depression runs in my family. I grew up hearing stories and seeing family members sink into low moods for extended periods of time. When I was in high school, the “black dog,” as Winston Churchill called it, finally paid a visit to me. It was the spring semester of my senior year. (Between 20 and …

America…How I weep for Her

The Statue of Liberty front shot, on Liberty Island. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I weep for a nation that is no more, for a nation that was once a great nation, a nation that prided itself on achieving greatness through hard work and innovation. I weep for a people that once believed that handouts were to …

One Good Laugh

  They say that laughter is the best medicine, if that is true, than I should be as healthy as a horse, for I find the funny in the non-funny almost daily. Yet I am not the picture of health, on the outside. I am a tad bit over wright, I wear glasses and take …

Attitude, you got one?

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. ~William James (1842 - 1910) Attitude…. What a powerful word. manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind: a negative attitude; group attitudes. …

Unions

Image via Wikipedia The government employee unions created by PERA may be the single largest obstacle to restoring the state’s prosperity. Collective bargaining for government employees is not an inalienable right, and its practice in Michigan has added billions of dollars to the cost of government. The repeal or restructuring of PERA could resolve the …