Electroconvulsive Therapy, Part 4
“The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.” Sylvia Plath (Poet & […]
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Electroconvulsive Therapy, Part 3
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And […]
Electroconvulsive Therapy, Part 2
Though she has been to a galaxy far, far away, Carrie Fisher knows the benefit of Electroconvulsive Therapy. “Over time, this f@#king thing [ECT] punched the dark lights out of […]
Electroconvulsive Therapy, Part 1
Both the Jew and the Gentile plan to present more lengthy considerations of faith and mental health, but want to do so in digestible portions. For some time now, I’ve wanted to speak about my year of […]
A Jew and A Gentile walk into a Bar . . . Mitzvah 