I turned 37 in February. Eric turns 39 in two months. But we already feel like we’re smack in the middle of a midlife crisis. Well, maybe that’s not the right word for it. Not a crisis—just a, how do you put it—vortex of time. We don’t have any time for anything. And not even…

I was taken aback by these statistics that I just read in Johns Hopkins Depression and Anxiety Health Alert: that a quarter of all adults have symptoms of at least one mental disorder each year, and nearly half of all Americans suffer from a mental disorder at some point in their lifetime. Here is what…

Fortunately there are abundant resources on the Internet to help guide a person who hears a loved one talk about suicide, or who is suicidal himself. I found the following material at Mayo Clinic’s page on suicide. Visit their site by clicking here, or print this out so that you have it handy the next…

Another way of taming the negative persons inside our head is to simply “shake off the dirt,” which is also an affirming and supportive discussion thread at Group Beyond Blue on Beliefnet’s Community. Beyond Blue Member DawnAndrea06777 starts off the discussion with this: Some of us have decided to work at shaking “dirt” off of…

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