mental-health
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Good, Mental Health Crisis: and the 6 Chambers of Chance.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) seems an inventory of the predictable pain and suffering in the human mind. If you or a friend or family member has a mental illness you will have directly encountered the… Continue reading
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Good, Real Life, Fellowship and the Games of Crisis
This writer can measure the sheer exhaustion of people with the current day crisis of leadership by how readers respond the the titles of this column. I would have to say that there is a limit being reached in terms… Continue reading
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Good and Post Script on a Failed Execution
The state of Tennessee has provided the final proof that state sponsored executions of human beings is a brutal, crude, and barbaric practice unworthy of a civilized society. In Christa Pikes’ situation a person commits a horrible crime as a… Continue reading
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Good, Mental Health, and Raging Leadership
“We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.”… Continue reading
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Good, Right or Left and the Radical Heart
The midterms are coming up and once again it looks like the fabric of unity is ripping apart under the stress to the political binaries. The nation is in halves and the parties are themselves breaking again into halves. Unity… Continue reading
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Good and Three C’s in Lasting Hard Times: An Uncredentialed Homily for a Stuggle
The three Cs mental health in lasting hard times are Connection, Caring, and Comedy. If you are not formally diagnosed in these profoundly difficult days, for the average American, these three Cs add ballast to your boat in the storm… Continue reading
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Good, the Brown Dandelion, and a Bedeviled Culture of Engineered Hatred
On a walk around a lake the other day this writer came upon a very young girl about 5 years old offering a look at her brown sort of tired dandelion to any walker coming by. Her precious flower was… Continue reading
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Good, and Words Better Than Mine from Ranier Maria Rilke
Sometimes when life gets just a notch too crazy it no longer feels as if it matters if you are a believer or not, religious or not, powerful or powerless, vulnerable or safe, right or left, extremist, radical or common… Continue reading
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Good, Nonsense, and Designing our Exit from these Hot Times
Rated PG-13 for mild peril and mass casualties. Running time: 1 hour 47 minutes. In theaters. This rating summary was given for the new movie Supergirl and this writer is pretty sure the people who wrote it either missed the… Continue reading
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Good and the Disease of Insatiable Wealth
Dr. David Lay Williams is a professor of political science who studies the role of economic inequality in the history of political thought. He wrote the following quote as a guest writer in the New York Times addressing ancient concerns… Continue reading
