Suicide and the Lottery of Second Chances

On New Year’s Eve, 1994, I pulled my beat-up old Ford out from the garage of my mother’s home. I drove out to an empty street six blocks away. The drizzly sky was erupting into a climax of fireworks: blooms of blue and green, mesmerizing yellows, and pulsating reds: floating heavenward, and then hanging there […]

Can a high carb diet lead to depression?

Mental health - the importance of nutrition

I‘m just one of the roughly 2.5% of the population afflicted by bi-polar disorder. I don’t remember my first manic episode, but I do recall my first bout of depression. I was just 14. Of course, I didn’t know I was depressed. Nor did my parents, teachers or anyone else. I was simply a ‘misfit’. […]