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Jumping on the K train
I took the plunge. My doctor recommended Ketamine treatments to me almost a year a ago, but we couldn’t get my insurance to cover it so we tabled it for the time and tried a change in anti-depressants. I got a little better…for a short period – perhaps a placebo effect? Enter Mindbloom. Sometime in…
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Happiness Hack: Volunteering Part 2
I am absolutely invigorated! I had my first meeting with my buddy from the ENGin program yesterday and it was the best experience I have had in a long time. To get to talk to someone halfway across the world and help them in their studies of English was such a thrill. We talked about each others’…
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Happiness Hack: Volunteering
Tomorrow starts my journey with ENGin, a English language volunteer organization that helps learners in the Ukraine by pairing them with a “buddy” for 1 hour a week, virtually.
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Happiness Hack: Habits
We all have habits both good and bad. Habits are made up of four parts: the cue, the craving, the response and the reward.
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Could a Peloton Bring Me Happiness?
I wanted a Peloton for a long time but always thought it would end up as more of a clothing rack than something that I used regularly. I was afraid I wouldn’t be strong enough or have enough endurance to get through a class. I mean my apartment complex has a couple Pelotons in our…
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Bankruptcy
To be frank, I don’t even know why I bothered to open my email client everyday. I had over 20,000 unread work emails that had amassed over the depression. I can’t even begin to count how many personal emails there were with all the newsletters and other subscriptions I have probably another 60,000. No wonder…
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Coming Out of the Fog
After about 6 months of fighting with the insurance company over ketamine we finally gave into the insurance company’s suggestion that we needed to change my anti-depressant a few more times before we moved to ketamine. And just like that gradually the fog started to lift and the clouds started to dissipate. It wasn’t instant…
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Deep Dark Depression
I barely left my bed. I worked from bed. I ate from bed. I watched TV from bed….
Got any book recommendations?
Pop the Depression 