Depression

I have been reading that depression is either an epidemic or it is overused. Clearly it is a cause of overuse of both prescribed and unprescribed treatement. Depression was once explained to me as what we all feel when we meet with disappointment or sadness (defeat or loss), but rather than being an exception to normal moods, it is the more common mood with less and less time feeling happy or "normal". What do you think?

What are the new blogs

Living in the Rio Grande Valley, it seems we are short of blogs on the social and political front. Not that there are not a few that I (and others) enjoy, but insomnia requires that I have more. Maybe I am missing the new ones. If you have read any (good or bad) tell me where to find them.

Flouride vs Xanax

Well, hmmm, I guess there are no new questions. I am curious with regard to all this talk of recession. There are those of us that have been in one for some time, but I guess now that it may effect Wall Street, it is more of a main street/mainstream topic and worthy of Presidential banter. Being anti-Iraq war makes me a little negative about our hopes in the matter, since we still have to pay for the war and the long term effects of the War. We will have to pay a heavy price for the peace like continuously propping up a government that will likely never be able to stand on its own feet and to take care of our men that return and the families of those that don't (in any sense of that meaning). And even if we do get out of Iraq, we still haven't finished (and some would argue that we have a larger job) in Afghanistan. But I have digressed.... Anyway, I am wondering if our recession will settle on us hard. It was interesting; at least I thought so, that one commentator spoke of us in a National Depression. Not in the financial sense but as a clinically depressed Nation, looking for hope in a message of change. Should we remove the Fluoride from the water and insert xanax? Should Dr. Phil be mandatory in school or for us all (we could combine it with the National ID, like a National Therapy/Voter/DNA/GPS/Border Crossing Card.) What do you think?

New Year Coming

Well, another year is fast approaching and I wonder how much I have learned in the passing of 365 days. I won't say it was an either an easy year or the worst, but looking back a lot has happened and yet everything is pretty much the same. Trying to decide if the coming of '08 is a landmark or a curse is interesting, another year older, wiser (?), deeper in debt (as the country western song goes (?): I am not to sure yet. Has the year changed the world? Most years do, but I don't think the calendar has made that clear yet. Where do you stand? Where do we stand?