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And courtesy of Beyond Blue reader Nancy: I am thankful for the wife who says, “Hot dogs for supper” Because she is home with me, not someone else. I am thankful for the husband who is on the sofa being a couch potato, Because he is home with me and not out at the bars.…

1. A loving God I can’t hear most of the time. 2. A faithful and devoted husband who lets me publish our sex life online and allows me to share his dance techniques with my Beyond Blue readers. 3. Two magical children who haven’t peed the bed in a week. 4. A mom whose vision…

I became a Holly Hunter fan back in 1993 when she starred in “The Piano” as a mute woman who leaves her native Scotland with her daughter and her piano. Music was the way to her soul, and Holly Hunter played the part with such emotion that I couldn’t help see parts of my intensity…

Back on my post “16 Ways Depression Is Like a Pumpkin,” Beyond Blue reader Kathy wrote this: I have been reading Beyond Blue for awhile. You may give hope to people with minimum to mild depression. But apparently you have no idea what it’s like to suffer from severe depression. If you really think that…

I wanted to share Beyond Blue reader Julia’s comment that she wrote on the message board of my post “Dear God: On Getting the Right View” for two reasons: I was taken aback by her beautiful articulation of what it’s like living with depression, and what faith does for a depressive, but also because I…

Also intriguing was Beyond Blue reader Mary’s comment back on my post “Mother Teresa: My Saint of Darkness and Hope“: I remember once reading in an article that said that people who are depressed have a more realistic picture of the world than those who don’t suffer depression. For some reason, those who don’t suffer…

Dear God, Man oh man is there is a lot of doom and gloom in Luke’s Gospel reading for today (Luke 21:5-19). I thought I had my anxiety under control until I read the part where Jesus said, “All that you see here—the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon…

Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton, the British Abolitionist, once wrote that “with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” This EVEN applies to those brave souls who go for it, ALL of it, on “American Idol.” In my prior post, “You Go, Girl!,” I talk about my not-so-great-start in writing. For all of those…

This week for Beyond Blue’s series “How Do You Move Beyond Blue?” I interview a beautiful young woman I met at the BlogHer convention in Chicago. She’s the accomplished, popular chick I told to slow down because she’s on the psych ward tract in my posts “Social Anxiety Rears Its Head” and “Perfectionism at BlogHer.”…

I think this is my favorite blog post of Rita’s because it addresses that feeling we all encounter … “I’m so blessed … so why am I depressed?” (Hey, that rhymes! blessed and depressed … cool!) I’ve been reframing my ass off today. We had a nice trip to Iowa over Labor Day. The little…
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