• My Love/Hate Relationship With The Pill

    I'm in a serious predicament. About two years ago I started on two medications: Seasonique and Fluoxetine (Prozac). Seasonique is the birth control pill which is a mixture of estrogen and progesterone, and one of its benefits is that you're only subjected to four periods a year. I've had horribl…
  • Prozac and Pregnancy

    This post is long overdue, but I didn't want to write it in case I'd have to take all of it back if my moods regressed once again. But I am proud to announce that I am definitely back to 100% after my serious slip into a pregnancy-triggered depression in November/December. About a week and a half af…
  • Depression and Work

    It's been awhile since I last posted, I guess. I've been going through depression again. It's been occurring for approximately the last six months... really since I got my latest job. My coworkers talk about me. They make fun of me for being dumb and ugly (amongst other things, but this is mainl…
  • Vitamins For Mental Disorders: Are We In Hog Heaven?

    If someone told you to dump out all your Prozac and Zoloft (etc) and replace them with a super multi-vitamin, would you do it? Since the 1960s, there has been ongoing research that confirms that some people have more of a “genetically based need” for vitamins and minerals than others. I…
  • I Heart Mikal

    I just finished watching the movie "Wristcutters : A Love Story". It was the weirdest, yet most beautiful love story I have ever had the pleasure to watch. For one the premise of the movie revolves around the main character a guy named Zia, who in the opening scene offs himself by (title appropia…
  • masters of the future

    01. I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” 02. According to this myth, the gods tie an invisible red string around the ankles of men and women who are destined to be soul mates and will one da…
  • vindictive little bitch

    01. A painter paints their pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. 02. Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that so…
  • How do anti-depressents work?

    (How does this work?) It seems as if Prozac, Zoloft and other anti-depressant drugs have flooded our market, and are being prescribed for anyone with mild depression. And this isn't a good thing, considering that most depression isn't the chemically imbalanced disorder that this drug sets ou…
  • Every Year Has Thirteen Junes

    It’s June and that traditionally heralds the beginning of wedding season. If you were born between the years of 1974 and 1980, then that probably means that you will a) be getting married sometime within the next three months, b) be attending at least two weddings within the next three months, or c…
  • Blood, Sweat, and Years

    On Saturday night I found myself overlooking northern Orange County from atop a hill, and this immediately reminded me of the view from atop Mt. Soledad in San Diego. When I was in college Mt. Soledad was generally a place where high school students went to have sex to Jodeci songs in their cars, b…