Quantcast
Channel: Couch trip » depression
Browsing all 6 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Two reviews: J.D. Salinger and “Lost in America”

One of the most intriguing opening lines of any novel has to be those of Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye”. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Borderline by Numbers

Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down (2005) is laugh-out-loud funny in parts but I found large parts of it to be terribly dull. Soccer-bore dull, people talking for the sake of talking kind of dull. And for a...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Diary Monday (on a Tuesday)

The nice way of saying this is that younger me (of four years ago) had “anger issues”. (My original comment was that younger me was a jerk.) Prompted by Courtney’s delightful Diary Monday, I went...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Living with a Black Dog

This excellently-illustrated book on Depression arrived in my post-box yesterday. Written and illustrated by Matthew (and Ainsley) Johnstone, Living with a Black Dog contains roughly 50 touching...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Shades of Blue

“I thought, if I wore the plain dark blue one you would take it as a sign that I was depressed, or rather as a sign that I was giving in to my depression, instead of fighting it. But when I put on the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Debating Depression

From 'Living with a Black Dog' by Mathew and Ainsley Johnstone Is major depression an illness or malfunction of the brain that needs to be cured or is it somehow adaptive in our evolution? (Or even...

View Article
Browsing all 6 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images