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An Unexpected Symptom

March 16, 2020 Susan 6 Comments

Coronavirus With the plethora of information available online and on tv about the Coronavirus, there’s an unexpected symptom that I’m…

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Posted in: Book Clubs, Book Conventions, Book Signings, Family, Friends of the Library, Libraries, Mental Health Filed under: book tour, Coronavirus, Covid19, depression, events canceled, Friends of the Library

Mental Health First Aid

August 27, 2018 Susan

Do you know someone who suffers from schizophrenia? Bipolar disorder? Severe depression? Anxiety or panic attacks? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: addiction, ALGEE, anxiety, Church Health Center, crises, crisis centers, depression, mental health, mental health first aid, mental health first aid training, mental health help lines, panic attacks, PTSD, suicide, suicide prevention, trauma

#Lent2018: Confession and Community

March 12, 2018 Susan

This is the fourth in my weekly series of reflections on Nicole Roccas’s book TIME AND DESPONDENCY: REGAINING THE PRESENT…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: "thankswriting", #Lent2018, being present, communion, confession, depression, despondency, Lent, Nicole Roccas, prayer, thankswriting journal, Time and Despondency

#Lent2018: Gratitude & “Thankswriting”

March 5, 2018 Susan

This is my third in a Lenten series in which I’m reflecting on Nicole Roccas’s book Time and Despondency: Regaining…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: "thankswriting", depression, despondency, Father Philip Rogers, gratitude, Living Prayer, Meditations on a Theme, mental health, Metropolitan Anthony Bloom, Nicole Roccas, prayer, silence, St. John Orthodox Church Memphis, Time and Despondency

This Close to Happy

March 13, 2017 Susan 2 Comments

I just finished reading my 6th book of 2017—This Close to Happy: A Reckoning With Depression by Daphne Merkin. Looking…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: clinical depression, Daphne Merkin, depression, This Close to Happy

Mental Health Monday: The Summer of My Discontent

September 5, 2016 Susan 2 Comments

Today I am declaring the summer of my discontent as officially over. Three long, hot, hard months of weight gain,…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: depression, exercise, gluttony, grief, Sjogren's Syndrome, sloth, Venus Williams, weight loss

Mental Health Monday: “Relearning” Depression

August 8, 2016 Susan 10 Comments

My son Jason is a prolific writer. He blogs just about daily (and sometimes more than once a day!) and…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: depression, Harsh Reality, Jason Cushman, mental health, Opinionated Man, suicide

Mental Health Monday: Muscle Relaxers, Facetime, and Air Conditioning

July 25, 2016 Susan 3 Comments

It’s been two months since my mother’s death. Most of the paperwork is done now… I only need to close…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: depression, heat, mental health

Mental Health Monday: Depression is Not a Lazy Susan

July 18, 2016 Susan 4 Comments

I know, I know. I didn’t write a “Faith on Friday” post this past Friday. Funny… but I was busy…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Deat Poets Society, depression, Still Life by Gillian Marchenko

Mental Health Monday: Writing Our Way Well?

February 15, 2016 Susan 4 Comments

I just finished editing 21 essays by a group of talented women authors for an anthology titled A Second Blooming:…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: anxiety, depression, mental illness, suicide, writers and mental illness

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