WBAL in Baltimore recently did a news story on my Lagniappe program on the 5:00 news:

http://www.wbaltv.com/womansdoctor/19168670/detail.html

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The Malaise Theory of Depression

The lies we tell ourselves
tinted in private colors
create intricate maps, instructions
to hold us against our will
or better angels
upon a designated course.
They creep into our
chemical soup and wiring
thickening trickery
truth becoming shadow.
Rolling downhill so easily
scratches, contusions, bleeding wounds
unacknowledged in subterfuge
"It's such a beautiful summer day."
We say, etching out smiles,
even crinkles of the eye.
Alone, in the dark, troubling drea… Continue

two nights ago i dreamt that i was talking to myself. the other me was consoling and coercing me into madness, saying that it's inevitable and just to accept it. that i'll die alone in an institution, and that if i get used to it now it won't be so bad later.

i was fired from my dream job almost 2 weeks ago. i don't know what to do, how to exist or cope or accept or move forward. i can't lie and say i haven't thought about giving up, but i know that's a permanent solution to a temporary… Continue

i like to go to places where it doesn't matter if i'm alone or not. i can sit and watch other people, play instant history or doodle on my napkin. where i have no idea whether that guy over there is sane, bi polar, schizophrenic or just plain confused. it doesn't matter. we're all mad here, isn't that what the cheshire cat said? he was right. we are all mad here.