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Beyond Blue readers: I am so very touched by your prayer thread at Group Beyond Blue. You have no idea how much that means to me. I was in the midst of writing my Monday “Dear God” letter in which I rationalize why staying in a manic cycle is okay (at least for a minute…

Here is my Dear God letter, on the enticement of mania. Dear God, Perfect timing with this week’s reading, given that I’m, at present, in a hypomanic cycle with 40/20 vision: noticing the beauty and mystery in just about every inanimate object—even the skiddish squirrels running into the middle of the road just to psych…

One great thing about mania is that you can be productive on absolutely no sleep. I taped this the morning after my totally sleepless night. I talk about how sleep, like medication and prayer, is a staple of recovery. Without out, we’re in trouble.

With Pope Benedict’s visit to the US (check out Beliefnet’s coverage by clicking here) comes an opportunity for me to explain why Catholicism is, hands down, the best religion for the mentally ill. Here are a few cool devotions and traditions within the Catholic faith that work well with those brains that are, well, creatively…

Be sure to check in with David Gibson, who is blogging for Beliefnet on all aspects of the Pope Benedict’s visit in the US, if you want to know why he is here, and how it’s going.

My friend Jim Martin has a great video clip from Stephen Colbert’s segment about the pope. In true Colbert, it’s priceless. Click here to see it. Jim Martin writes: There are few people who are more excited about the pope’s visit than Stephen Colbert, who actually has tickets to the Mass at Yankee Stadium, as…

Thanks to good old Nancy for this one!

Okay, I realize I have the sense of humor of a five-year-old (possibly six), but I still crack up over this video, especially when I think about my own mini-me inside my head. I hum this song to us all the time.

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…

As an example of the relationship between stress and depression, J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr., M.D. mentions the situation with CBS commentator Mike Wallace, when he was on trial for libel over a story he’d done. In “Understanding Depression,” DePaulo writes: For weeks [Mike Wallace] sat in a drafty federal courthouse in New York City while…
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