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In her classic book, “The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity,” Julia Cameron offers readers twelve ways to recover their sense of self or inner creativity. According to this artist, nurturing one’s creative powers is a spiritual exercise–and an antidote to (mild) depression and anxiety. “I have seen lives transformed by the simple…

Speaking of suffering and anger and confusion, I was incredibly moved by a post on a blog called “Old Lady’s Law Office and Kitchen Table” (to get to there click here) about a coworker’s death. Suicide. She asks the questions aloud in a way that anyone who has ever lost a loved one or friend…

My absolute favorite essay on depression is a piece Kay Redfield Jamison wrote for NPR’s “This I Believe” collection of testimonies. It’s about learning to love our jagged edges. I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense…

While I don’t appreciate the nasty tone of many comments on my post about J.K. Rowling’s Suicidal Days, they have caused me to rethink my claim that divorce doesn’t CAUSE depression—even if it can TRIGGER it. Big whoop, you say: the semantics of those two words: “cause” versus “trigger.” But I realize that in distinguishing…
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