You may be breathing a sigh of relief now that the holidays are over. There’s no question that there are many aspects of the holiday season that are tough on someone with depression. Things that tax your energy like shopping and cooking, parties and gatherings that require you to attempt a smile and engage in [...]
Monday, November 28, 2011
Diagnosis Bipolar Disorder Fact Sheet Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents Goldberg Mania Inventory ICD-10 Definition of Bipolar Disorder - Somewhat technical, but can be useful ICD-10 Definition of Cyclothymic Disorder - Somewhat technical, but can be useful Red Flags What is Bipolar I Disorder? Web Pages Basket Weaving for Beginners Bipolar Brain Bipolar Disorder: About.com Bipolar Planet BiPolar [...]
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Monday, November 28, 2011
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 and make eye contact. Be approachable [...]
Thursday, November 17, 2011
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. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C.D. [...]
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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 the Future!” Scrooge repeated, as he [...]
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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 concealed its head, its face, its [...]
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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 was restored to consciousness in the [...]
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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 of a neighbouring church struck the [...]
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Chapter 1 – Marley’s Ghost Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. [...]
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such [...]
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