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Thanks to reader Larry Parker for directing me to the story “Darkness Invisible” by Daphe Merkin in the New York Times Magazine last month. It is a powerful commentary on the public’s response to the suicide attempt of Owen Wilson. I’ve included below the entire article, because I couldn’t figure out which paragraphs to excerpt.…

Tomorrow my very good friend Michelle’s book on cancer, “Any Day With Hair Is a Good Hair Day: How to Get Through Cancer and Get On with Your Life (Trust Me, I’ve Been There),” is released! I’ll talk about it more next week, because she has a section devoted to people afflicted by both cancer…

Dear God, You sound a lot like my late (earthly) father with today’s lessons on manners in Luke’s gospel: Ten lepers had been healed, and yet only one returned to thank Jesus. So Jesus turned to that man–a Samaritan, of course, because those guys always get it right—and said, “Ten were cleansed, were they not?…

As part of Blog Action Day–a collaborative effort in cyberspace to raise awareness of environmental issues, I’m republishing a post I wrote back in February, when it finally got cold outside. Global warming is a huge issue of anxiety for me. Even as I’d love the waterfront property in 25 years, I shudder when I…

Thanks to reader Sunshine who reminded me that today, October 15 is the feast day of St. Teresa of Avila, one of my very favorite saints! In memory of her loving faith, I’m republishing her “Bookmark” prayer, which is as important to me as the Serenity Prayer and the Prayer of St. Francis. I hope…

Following is the fourth and last segment of my interview with Ken Duckworth, M.D., the medical director of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) that I was afforded through a blogger call hosted by Revolution Health. For Part 1 click here. For Part 2 click here. For Part 3 click here. To hear…

I’m facinated by this “circuit-board” model of major depression–the connection between specific sets of nerve cells in different regions of the brain–explained by researchers like Helen S. Mayberg, M.D., professor of psychiatry and neurology at Emory School of Medicine. And I’m intrigued by this not-so-new notion that depression is not just a chemical imbalance in…

For more information on deep brain stimulation (DBS), click here for excerpts from Johns Hopkins’s interview with Helen S. Mayberg, professor of psychiatry and neurology at Emory University School of MEdicine.

Douglas Cootey over at The Splintered Mind recently wrote a poignant article about the brick walls in his life. He quoted Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor who had recently been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given only a few months to live. “Brick walls are there for a reason,” Pausch said. “They…

Speaking of perfectionism, I thought you’d appreciate this story from the BlogHer convention I attended back in July. As I mentioned in an earlier post, sometimes these events can bring out the insecure, pimply seventh-grader in me, the one the boys used to get to the prettier, more popular twin sister (not that I still…
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