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Magical Realist Online Dec 21, 2015 11:02 PM (This post was last modified: Dec 21, 2015 11:56 PM by Magical Realist.)
Dan Roman "Living with Depression"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVh3J3Hz86k

Sabrina Benaim "Explaining my depression to my mother"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqu4ezLQEUA

Blythe Baird "When the fat girl gets skinny"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Tb_bZZDv0

Alyea Pierce "Justin: A Poem to Autism"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-BBeeYE3Vw

Neil Hilborn "OCD"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnKZ4pdSU-s
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elte Offline Dec 26, 2015 06:41 PM (This post was last modified: Dec 26, 2015 07:02 PM by elte.)
Late December is a time known for increased anxiety and depression. Many people have a lot going on concerning living day to day, and the holiday season adds more stress. Maybe things could feel more celebratory if existential problems could be solved and everyone could be truly happy.
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Magical Realist Online Dec 30, 2015 01:01 AM (This post was last modified: Dec 30, 2015 02:45 AM by Magical Realist.)
(Dec 26, 2015 06:41 PM)elte Wrote: Late December is a time known for increased anxiety and depression. Many people have a lot going on concerning living day to day, and the holiday season adds more stress.  Maybe things could feel more celebratory if existential problems could be solved and everyone could be truly happy.

I feel a great burden lifting on the 26th of December. Reality can go back to being normal again. All traces of gift-giving and mistletoeing and eggnogging suddenly drop away like cockroaches from the walls of a pest-fogged house. No more TV mass marketed products set to tinkling Christmas themes. No more cued pity for poor families who can't afford to participate in the mindless consumerist madness of the holidays. Multicolored flashing Hallmark movie fantasy fades into wintry silence, at least until next year. I got nothing for christmas. I didn't want anything for christmas. Am I depressed about it? Nope. I'm feelin fine.
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elte Offline Dec 30, 2015 03:39 PM
I wonder how Joan of Arc would have turned out in this day and age.  Even back then, burning at the stake hadn't taken hold as a practice against far cultural outliers, done especially with regard to religion.  Or maybe it was already a practice but she evaded it.
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elte Offline Jan 6, 2016 04:04 PM
(Dec 30, 2015 01:01 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: I feel a great burden lifting on the 26th of December. Reality can go back to being normal again. All traces of gift-giving and mistletoeing and eggnogging suddenly drop away like cockroaches from the walls of a pest-fogged house. No more TV mass marketed products set to tinkling Christmas themes. No more cued pity for poor families who can't afford to participate in the mindless consumerist madness of the holidays. Multicolored flashing Hallmark movie fantasy fades into wintry silence, at least until next year. I got nothing for christmas. I didn't want anything for christmas. Am I depressed about it? Nope. I'm feelin fine.

I'm glad the holiday season is over this year.  Reseachers and science writers are starting to put out interesting reading material again after taking a lot if time off.

I'm not involved with exchanging gifts during the holidays and getting unwanted things.
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