When a Facebook Post Is a Cry for Help
By LIZ HERON In today’s connected world, it is not uncommon for high school and college students to use Facebook as a place to pour out their feelings, sometimes in intensely personal updates. Some are predictable melodrama and fairly harmless cries for validation — but not all. Facebook posts can serve as early warning signs for […]
Facebook and the disintegration of the human
Is Facebook a boon or cause for concern for the mental health industry? According to a New York Times article by Jan Hoffman referencing a study of the Facebook profiles of 200 university students in the United States, approximately 30 percent of the students “posted updates that met the American Psychiatric Association’s criteria for a symptom of depression, reporting feelings […]
Trying to imagine a future possibility
I’ve had the flu since last Friday and the coughing comes out in bursts. Besides that and little else, I’ve been spending time with a really special person. She cannot be named right now but I hope to real soon. A good friend and more she has emerged from a shell and allowed me into […]
The Bank Account of Life in South Africa
My mother, Illona Murray, gave me this message in 2000 while recovering from a severe depression. Maybe it is ironic that she has just retired from 33 years of working for First National Bank. Share this message with someone who is going through a hard time because they need to know someone cares about them. […]
What can I do to make me feel better about me?
This is a question from Yahoo! Answers that I answered and was voted Best Answer by the person who asked the question… As the week keeps going, I’m feeling more and more depressed. I feel like pretty soon something is going to happen to me because of my bad decisions. What can I do to […]