As part of mental health awareness month I wanted to repost this piece that I originally wrote several years ago while I was in a state of particularly bad depression. I wrote an addendum, then later deleted it, some time afterwards because I didn’t want someone to read it without understanding the context in which … Continue reading Mental Health Awareness Month, Repost: “Notes Of a Dirty Young Man”
Depression
A Consummation Devoutly To Be Wish’d -The Speech of Hamlet, The Desire of Ending
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and … Continue reading A Consummation Devoutly To Be Wish’d -The Speech of Hamlet, The Desire of Ending
On the Subject of Yellow Paint
There's a story about how Van Gogh used to eat yellow paint. Yellow was his favorite color, and he thought it would make him happy "on the inside." I think about that story a lot when I'm depressed, and I appreciate the story but not the way it's usually told. It's always treated like such … Continue reading On the Subject of Yellow Paint
Pen and Screen 