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[16 May 2012 update: I know I said I won’t be online these few weeks and I have been doing quite well keeping my promise. However, May is Mental Health Awareness Week and I would like to offer my modest contribution in support of the Mental Health Blog Party organized by the American Psychological Association.

So I decided to come mid-way: I am now updating my b…

Cutting to the chase, here is the second half of excerpts from blog posts that have helped my recovery from depression (again, they are in no particular order:

1. “What to do when being a perfectionist drags you down?” at Talent Develop

So let go of the feeling that you must reach an unrealistic level of perfection, and get in touch with the reality that you c…

Prompted by my readers, I decided to consolidate specific quotes from blog posts – not just websites – that have helped me rearrange my depressed thoughts, and in one way or another inspired me to get out of my rut slowly.

In a state of destitute misery, I suppose we try to grapple with anything that comes our way, and try to hold on to whatever life boats we can …

Ask anyone with depression, anxiety, bipolar, and any other type of mental illness this: “If you could choose a normal life, would you?” Their responses might surprise you – I surprised myself too.

My instant gut reaction was “Yes! Of course!” as I read the subject heading of an email a good friend of mine forwarded to me.

How…

“Life Less Lived: A passage through burn out & depression in the suburbs” is a book about – errr, doh – stress-induced depression. A memoir written by Richard Hawkey, one of my readers I’ve come to known through email correspondence. It is surprising, but rewarding how invisible forces in the world works.

By chance, I decided to pitch an artic…

Sometimes, I am grateful I’m depressed. In fact, I write the best when I’m feeling down in the dumps. The effervescence of words bubbles out uncontrollably. I dare say, I rediscovered my creativity in the most unlikely way – through depression.

Although 2 years old, Jonah Lehrer has a point in his New York Times article,  ”Depression&#…

I was sprawled across the 2 small steps between my living room and dining room when Timmie came home. Semi-conscious perhaps. I could hear him shuffling, stomping around and calling someone on the phone yelling something. Droppie was here too, visiting from Australia. He is one of Timmie’s best buddy. He must think I’m nuts and hate me for ruining his hol…

I owe lots of people email replies. I simply cannot handle being in front of the computer screen for too long each day and not for too many days a week. The sitting position, squinting at the screen, and wrist typing position, tense up my body, neck and shoulders, and eventually will set off a migraine if I’m not careful.

Anxiety sets in when when I owe people rep…

The more I write, the more I realize, as long as we write from deep within our hearts, people will feel it and resonate somehow. With so much encouragement from the last post, and readers / followers on Twitter & emails urging me alike, I’ve managed to patch up some courage to publish a poem I scribbled down a few days ago.

Poetry, for me, is a language of …

As I started scribbling away during my days of depression, I recognized this little call inside me that said, “write more, write more, write poems again!” In fact, many moons ago, I wrote poetry. I was no Robert Frost, but I wrote a lot in my spare time, experimenting with words and phrases, expressing the melancholy and confusion I felt as a teena…