Your Mileage May Vary (with Medication)
The dentist was drilling one of my teeth down to get it ready for a crown the other day. Two and a half hours – not all the time spent drilling, of course, but long enough. By the end, I was ready to fight my way out of the…
How to keep depression treatment affordable
If you have depression and are struggling financially, the last thing you want to give up is your depression treatment, but you may feel that you just can’t justify paying for your treatment instead of rent, food and utilities. Here are a few ideas that might help you continue…
What do you do if your antidepressant “kind of” works?
Does your antidepressant “kind of” work? If you feel better, but not good or normal, after starting a new antidepressant, or starting on antidepressants for the first time, you’re probably experiencing what’s known as a “partial response.” This can be very frustrating, and unfortunately many people assume that this…
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Surviving Holiday Parties When You Have Social Anxiety
HealthDay News — Socializing is a major part of the holiday season, but many people find it difficult.If you suffer anxiety or feel tongue-tied at festive gatherings, here are some helpful tips from Martin Antony, a psychology professor at Ryerson University in Toronto.First, some advice about making conversation. Smile…
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Preface I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.…
A Christmas Carol – Chapter 5
Chapter 5 – The End of It Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the time before him was his own, to make amends in! “I will live in the Past, the Present, and…
A Christmas Carol – Chapter 4
Chapter 4 – The Last of the Spirits The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery. It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which…
A Christmas Carol – Chapter 3
Chapter 3 – The Second of the Three Spirits Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One. He felt that he…
A Christmas Carol – Chapter 2
Chapter 2 – The First of the Three Spirits When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. He was endeavouring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes…