I see we have a new category called "Bush Depression" - last I'd seen was "Wingnut Alert."What happened since I last checked in - two consecutive blizzards - it got down to 45 below with windchill. Interstate 94 and Interstate......

I need some help managing anger, depression, and sadness. More specifically, I need to figure out some way for my boyfriend to control his urges to beat the crap out of random people and for me to control my deep depression. The back story is that we are both recent law school graduates. My boyfrien...

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So I got a Trojan virus on my computer last week. Ended up having to scrub my hard drive and reinstall my software. In the process my audio drivers have disappeared, so I have no sound on my laptop which is very weird. I think I've gotten most of my files back now, but we'll see. This has been such ...

  Women are diagnosed with clinical depression in higher numbers than men. This doesn't mean women are more prone to depression, only that they go to the doctor and get a diagnosis more often than men. But now a new study claims to have found the miracle cure for female depression: semen! A...

While trudging through last night's moribund and unfunny home foreclosure-themed Simpsons episode, we suddenly got to wondering... Is it possible to laugh about the looming New Depression? OK, so there was a funny Peppermint Patty is a lesbian laff. But other than that, we sat through 22 minutes of ...

He misses two important threads. Had John McCain won last November, very few of the New Deal denialists would be out in public--instead, the Republican legislators and their tame intellectuals would be enthusiastially rallying behind McCain's tax cut-based Keynesian fiscal stimulus package right now...

Even 'SNL' bashed Geithner this weekend. Poor Tim Geithner. The Former New York Fed president's stint as Treasury secretary has, to put it mildly, not been going very well. In retrospect, it seems like it was cursed from the beginning, when his nomination was briefly put on hold after it was reveale...

Don't get me wrong, these are mostly all good singers, but goddamn are they depressing to listen to, especially if you're already depressed! 1) Norah Jones. Super hawt and with a super silky smooth voice, but six of her songs in a row and your soul starts floating up towards the ceiling all by itsel...

People, when they encounter someone like me*, always end up with the conclusion that everything we do is in fact a cry for help. A many long time ago I stated that I didn't want to be helped and that I wasn't looking for any help, I still maintain that affirmation. I am not doing what I am doing to ...