I’ve written before about the peanut gallery, the people in your life whose expectations you’re trying to fill, consciously or subconsciously. Perhaps you hear their voices when you do something differently than they would. Maybe you spend so much time trying to please them that you don’t have time to do what you want to [...]

First I noticed fatigue and a general lack of physical and emotional energy this summer. Most days by dinnertime I hardly had the energy to stand, and the only thing my brain could handle doing after dinner was vegging out in front of the TV. But I dismissed it as seasonal allergies, because last year [...]

Depression is now one of the most common illnesses in the United States and worldwide. It affects one in three patients in a typical internal medicine practice; one in 16 Americans; and one in 30 people worldwide. In the U.S., ten percent of the population may experience a major depressive episode in any given year.
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