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Depression Out of the Shadows aired here on local PBS channel WTTW Chicago on May 21, 2008. I stayed home and watched. It hasn’t been quite a year yet since the “event” in my life that took me into a depression spiral that this blog is pretty much a byproduct of. Having the type of deep pain that literally makes you cease functioning in a normal way is what people in the profession categorize clinical depression. But I didn’t get help. I “self medicated.” And before you start jumping to conclusions, it was with vitamins. And it’s hard to believe but I wrote this piece about what actually worked a full SIX MONTHS AGO. Wow! But here’s the really awful thing about depression ; I’m better today, and I can function, but the “trigger” event and all the bad feelings about it are still so fresh in my mind it is as if NO time has passed at all. I still spend a good part of every day, despite how mind crushingly busy I am, in my head going over the events, the fallout, the ramifications and the causes that in MY mind really destroyed my life. That’s depression. I know I’ve got it. AND, I refuse to get help. So the PBS special on depression took a very inclusive selection of Americans to give their story.

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To follow up on my very late Mother’s Day piece from yesterday I thought I’d tackle the issue of mom bloggers or mommy bloggers as I’m hearing a lot these days too. Wow, it’s seems strange as hell to be talking about a “mom blogger” at all. At first. But then you think about it…and it makes perfect sense! Listen I’ve been messin’ around with computers since a little ol’ thing called the TRS-80. Can you take a guess what year that was? I’ll give you a hint it’s in the model number of the computer. And at the time I couldn’t afford the $499.00, or was it $599.00? And my mother didn’t see what I would do with such a thing in the house-of course at the time a lot of NON-mothers couldn’t see what you would do with it. Even ME. But I knew I wanted one because I wanted to build an Iron Man war suit (see how things really don’t change that much) I didn’t know exactly how, but Tony Stark had one so I figured I’d need one too. But blogging in moms at home seem like a perfect match; women like to communicate, if they don’t have an paycheck job but have a family they tend to have this block of alone time during the middle of the day, most that I’ve met enjoy being busy, and they’re like 51.7% of the internet population now. Fait accompli.

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How backed up on various projects am I? Well I’m just getting to my Mother’s Day piece-and my mother’s birthday is in a 3 days, so you can look for a piece on that in about 8 months at the rate I’m going. But yeah, me and mom went to a steakhouse. I asked her where she wanted to go, and they’re a place in Ford City that’s kind of a Chinese buffet about the size of a department store (so it’s really all kinds of food). But I also suggested Outback Steakhouse in the nearby outskirt town of Calumet City . The difference being that since we’re on the South Side of Chicago, Ford City means driving west all the way to Cicero and Calumet City is just driving about 5 miles further south. In other words 10 minutes away, but of course it’s’ like night and day once you leave Chicago. Now this may not seem like a big deal, this choice, but it kinda is. And the reason is that my mom and I are sort of a team (I’m her only son, and my father died when I was 2-and I only found his other kids a few years ago).

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