(9) The Painting Woman Edited: November 26, 2024 “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” – Gautama Buddha *** This entry was originally written in 2020 but has since been edited to reflect new circumstances. Paragraphs that are italicized have been written
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(8) The Man in the Woods “It’s a strange poverty of the English language, and indeed of many other languages, that we use this same word, depression, to describe how a kid feels when it rains on his birthday, and to describe how somebody feels the minute before they commit suicide.” – Andrew Solomon This
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(7) The Secret Under My Bed “A healthy man has many wishes, a sick man only one.” – Indian proverb This is Part 2 of a three-part series…Part 1: (6) The Talk That Cost Me My JobPart 3: (8) The Man in the Woods Life is weird. Have you ever had something happen that changes
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(6) The Talk That Cost Me My Job. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt This is Part 1 of a three-part series…Part 2: (7) The Secret
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(5) My Gateway Drug “An antibiotic is a powerful agent that its job is to inhibit or kill bacteria. So the antibiotic changes the composition that’s present in the body, and some of the organisms will go down. Others will go up in compensation. And some of them will go down to zero. And when
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(4) The Microbiome and the Root of My Depression “Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me?” – Timothy Morton One of my earliest childhood memories is of my mom and I browsing the fruit section of the grocery store near the house I grew up
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(3) How It Feels to Microdose LSD “I was suffering. Worse, I was making the people around me suffer. I was in pain, and I was desperate and it suddenly seemed like I had nothing to lose.” – Ayelet Waldman I first heard about people microdosing LSD in 2016. The article I read was about
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(2) My Depression “Having a black dog in your life isn’t so much about feeling a bit down, sad or blue…at its worst it’s about being devoid of feeling altogether.” – I had a black dog, his name was Depression. Depression is something that affects a big portion of the human population. I am one
(1) Who am I? “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” – Gautama Buddha My name is Dely Sandor (not my real name) and I am a 29-year-old male from the United States. I look like a regular overweight Mexican guy who