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This is a newsreel social and political silent documentary, one of the first ever made in the United States, produced by a leftist and communist cinema collective known as The Film and Photo League. Members would film protests and social movements...
by VPSReports
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 12:32 AM PDT
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I have health problems that I have been trying to get a diagnosis for, this has been ongoing for years. I am also feeling extended grief for the death of my parents. Mom from lung cancer in 2004, and my father, in 2015 due to multiple organ failure,...
by Cmae
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 10:17 AM PST
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National Suicide and Crisis Hotline 988 (www.nimh.nih.gov/...) It is nearing the end of January. Nature has hit us pretty hard. We’ve already had out tenth winter storm come across the mainland U.S., and there’s still more to come. We’ve had two...
by Ben Kalom
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on Sat Jan 27, 2024 at 07:47 AM PST
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Sometimes despair falls on you, gently and softly like an inverted snowstorm of dusky, shadowy flakes, silently accumulating in the mind. These flakes do not reflect the light; they absorb it; slowly stealing away all color and texture. As the layers...
by AndyT
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on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 12:57 PM PST
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Warning: Unlike feel-good columns blaming "social media" for teen problems and praising grownups as healthy rescuers, this column is no fun to read. Mike Males The three figures to the right, taken from standard Centers for Disease Control tabulations...
by mmales
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on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 01:00 PM PST
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Many world events are depressing. Wars, climate catastrophes, and mean people threatening democracy and social cohesion are depressing. Even the holidays can be depressing for many people. I’m not a psychiatrist. But every day I work with people who...
by Examined
203 comments
on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 07:00 AM PST
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TRIGGER WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS FRANK AND UNCOMFORTABLE DISCUSSION OF SUICIDAL IDEATIONS. THIS MAY UPSET SOME READERS. 1983, Day 1 Sometime between August and November of 1983, I tried to hang myself. If I recall the instigating incident was that...
by AndyT
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 03:10 PM PDT
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As I wrote yesterday I am going thru a bout of severe depression. I wrote to get ideas about how to possibly loose the funk and the Kos community came up with many suggestions and ideas, and I was ...
by CameronProf
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on Mon Jun 05, 2023 at 03:05 PM PDT
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Above is my self portrait. I have been very depressed as of late. I suffer from clinical depression and I take meds for it, but nothing seems to be helping at the moment. Due to health and economic reasons I am way down in the dumps. I thought I was...
by CameronProf
260 comments
on Sun Jun 04, 2023 at 06:49 PM PDT
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If Gender dysphoria and gun violence are about mental health, then let's make it about mental health I wonder if someone born with a heart defect thinks they should have a working heart? I wonder if someone born with a deformed limb thinks they should have access to health care that would solve that issue and give them a better life. Should a child...
by iarnstein
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on Mon May 15, 2023 at 08:22 PM PDT
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We must continue having Christian principles guiding the medical experts setting our laws to further conservative views that this country is a Christian based one. In that regard, the state of Texas is rightly ignoring stated positions by the American...
by iarnstein
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on Sat May 13, 2023 at 11:10 PM PDT
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In yesterday’s Daily Take, I laid out a scenario where Kevin McCarthy and congressional Republicans could crash our economy by forcing a default on US debt (unless Biden invokes the 14th Amendment), producing what could easily be a depression as deep...
by thomhartmann
145 comments
on Fri Apr 28, 2023 at 08:20 AM PDT
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I’m not surprised by my initial, knee-jerk reaction to reports that Sen. John Fetterman was preparing to undergo treatment for clinical depression at Walter Reed Medical Center. Nor am I particularly proud of it. Given everything I’ve been through,...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
203 comments
on Sat Feb 18, 2023 at 03:42 PM PST
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I opened my phone up yesterday to discover the news that Senator John Fetterman had sought inpatient treatment for clinical depression. I sat and stared at my phone for a few minutes, speechless and awash from a veritable firehose of competing...
by SquireForYou
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on Fri Feb 17, 2023 at 06:39 AM PST
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While not related to depression, I have in the past written about my own issues with anxiety. The different traumatic experiences in my life, from being there when cancer related pneumonia took my grandpa, to various accidents, to the ups and downs...
by Rule of Claw
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on Thu Feb 16, 2023 at 03:24 PM PST
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Mental health is (unfortunately) an extremely stigmatized subject here in the United States. For far too long, folks have written off serious health conditions like depression and anxiety as people being whiny or lazy. In reality, mental health can...
by Marissa Higgins
127 comments
on Thu Feb 16, 2023 at 01:14 PM PST
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Yes I suffer from severe depression caused by illness loneliness and having no future. My life used to be dine. I had a steady job and my Ph.d and though life wasn't perfect it was good. Until January 5 of 2005 when my mother of blessed memory died in...
by CameronProf
181 comments
on Sun Jan 01, 2023 at 12:04 AM PST
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This is not a poem. This is a quiet voice, Slow and soothing. It says to you: We escape. We all escape in our own ways. We start by searching endlessly for the way that works for each of us. The mother who has lost a child finds an online virtual world...
by bisleybum
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on Sat Dec 03, 2022 at 12:16 PM PST
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The use of psychedelics in the treatment of mental health conditions, for personal use, spirituality, and self-exploration, or even for gaining an extra edge at work has been gaining traction in recent years. Studies have shown that psychedelics can be...
by Mark Rose The Intolerant Lefty
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on Thu Dec 01, 2022 at 10:25 AM PST
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Something popped up, and made me think of Dan Fogelberg. I used to have his album, the Innocent Age, back in the days of vinyl. I gave away all my old vinyl, a few years ago, since I can simply search YouTube, if I think of an old song I want to hear....
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
113 comments
on Sun Sep 04, 2022 at 08:29 PM PDT
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