The Truth about Dragons

The Truth about Dragons

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  • The Importance of Fathers

    For Father’s Day, tomorrow, friend Xerxes remembers his mother praising his own father for being “consistent.” He considers this a case of being damned with faint praise. He thinks “devoted” would have been better.

    I think he is quite wrong.

     

    3 min
  • The Cure - Part 1

    We believe we can do better than we now do in healing anxiety and depression. Because we used to; and in some parts of the world, still do.

    And this is an urgent concern: some are suffering the torments of hell. People are killing themselves.

    Unfortunately, the reader, if galvanized to act, cannot put down this book and easily proceed on their own.

    5 min
  • What is Mental Illness?

    What is mental illness?

    To begin with, it is not an illness.

    Illness here is a metaphor. It relies on thinking of the mind as equivalent to the body. It is not.

    The body is like a machine we operate. Each part has a purpose, and if it fails to achieve its purpose, we are ill.

    The mind is not something we operate. It is our self.

    What is the purpose of a self?

    9 min
  • What Is Depression?

    So What Is Depression?


    It is not an illness, so far as we know. All we really have is a set of symptoms. See the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual to make this clear. It is a bulleted checklist. Check off five or more, and that’s your diagnosis.
    And it may be an arbitrary list. What we call depression may, like a fever, or a skin rash, have a variety of different underlying causes.

    9 min

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The roots of depression and the road to liberation