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Depression is a lot like childbirth. Once you’ve climbed out of the Black Hole (i.e. are holding your newborn in your arms) you forget (at least temporarily) about all the cursing you did during the labor that got you there. In my mood journal (which is the most important thing I do each day), I…

I laughed out loud when I read reader Tammy’s remark on my “Gretchen Rubin: How Do You Move Beyond Blue?” post: “I know that God will not give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.” My deacon friend said something similar to me one morning over coffee.…

I think God wants us to get mad at him. It means we’re in a living, normal relationship with him. Catholic author Ronald Rolheiser goes so far to say that wrestling with God is a form of prayer. In his book, “Forgotten Among the Lilies,” he writes this: God wants to be wrestled with. As…

Jim McDermott, associate editor at “America” magazine, recently invited me and others (lawyers, artists, peace activists, academics, religious leaders) to contribute a piece of advice for college graduates that he published in a special education issue. This is what I wrote (and it definitely applies to living with depression): Love the Questions In college I…
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