Anxiety

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Vraylar Vagaries & Verities

A great pile of aluminum foil-wrapped sandwiches surrounds the manic mother who stands at her kitchen counter atop a pyramid of playing cards in beautiful suburbia.  Bipolar I Disorder could topple her reality, perhaps smothering her in ham sandwiches, but there is a solution in Vraylar, a drug from Forest Laboratories Holdings Ltd, an Allergan […]

24Aug2018 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Closure Blooms

I tried to kill myself at Yale University when I was a student there 51 years ago. Returning to the 50th Reunion of the class of 1966, the class I didn’t graduate with, I sought closure to what has always been a painful experience. A friend from those undergraduate years invited me to come. I […]

16Jun2016 | | 0 comments | Continued
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BYE, BYE, BLACKBIRD

No one gets through life without being hurt. To be human is to be hurt. All men and women have people or places that have negative associations.  An offhand remark by a stranger or an acquaintance can resonate in our mind long after, years even, the unpleasant comment.  A deed by a friend, a relative, […]

2Jul2014 | | 1 comment | Continued
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The Emotional Anxiety of Prison Visitation

The California Men’s Colony is not a pleasant place to visit, and the authorities go out of their way to make you know it.  A visit has all the charm of a stopover in a dank toilet room, but this toilet is a difficult place to enter. It took me more than five hours to […]

14Aug2011 | | 0 comments | Continued