Jun 9, 2012 | Mental Health
Do not abandon yourself to sorrow, do not torment yourself with brooding. Gladness of heart is life to anyone, joy is what gives length of days. Give your cares the slip, console your heart, chase sorrow far away; for sorrow has been the ruin of many and is no use to...
Jun 9, 2012 | Mental Health
I have been reading about Mitchell Wilson, the 11 year old boy with muscular dystrophy who was attacked by a 13 year old and had been bullied for a long time. The grieving father has connected his young son’s suicide to this attack and incessant bullying. I don’t know...
Jun 9, 2012 | Mental Health
There is an inquiry in Toronto regarding the shooting death of a man who was walking outside, in the cold, wearing a blue short sleeve hospital gown. He was about four blocks away from the local hospital. The police were called. Five or six officers tried to grapple...
Jun 9, 2012 | Mental Health
Remember the nursery rhyme: Sticks and stones can break my bones but names will never hurt me? Not true. Children never commit suicide over broken bones. But they do over broken souls. I think the difference between being bullied and being emotionally abused is age....
Jun 9, 2012 | Mental Health
There was a time, during my forties, when I wanted out. Caring for someone with extreme depression is exhausting and I didn’t want to be a burden. It was my sense of helplessness which I found more devastating than any other emotion. No way out. No end to the...
Jun 9, 2012 | Mental Health
When I was 49 I was diagnosed with chronic recurrent depression and anxiety. I also had manic tendencies but was unaware of them at that time. One year later, I went into hospital for minor surgery and came out after two rounds of emergency surgery, with a colostomy...
