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Saved by Depression: Guest Blogger Eric Wilson on How Darkness Saved His Soul

If you're unlucky enough to be depressed, our society tells you to pop a pill and put on a happy face -- anything to avoid wallowing in sadness. But today's guest blogger, Eric G. Wilson, suggests in...

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Good Reads: Thrift Store Saints

Have you ever preferred to simply write a check to charity rather than get involved in people's messy, desperate lives? I confess that I have. Thankfully, some people are more courageous and...

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Flunking Deadlines, Setting Limits

Someone told me recently, "I don't know how you do it all." I've heard this before and it's nice that I fooled that person, but here is the truth: I am going a bit barmy with overcommitment. This...

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“Still Alice” and the Specter of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s

This month my book club read Still Alice, neuroscientist Lisa Genova's haunting novel about a Harvard cognitive science professor who discovers, at age 50 and the height of her career, that she...

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