Nov 21, 2022 | Arts and Entertainment, Mental Illness, Original Source Matthewrozsa.com, Reviews
“Bad day? Kill yourself. Heart broken? Kill yourself. Parking ticket? Kill yourself.” When Dean (Nadine Crocker) utters this line in the 2022 film “Cont;nue,” it is with a wry, glib and darkly self-aware gallows humor. In lesser stories, that approach might be a mere stylistic affect, but anyone who has been suicidal, is suicidal and/or knows suicidal people can instantly recognize the...
Oct 2, 2022 | Mental Illness, Original Source Salon.com
Oct 2, 2022 | Mental Illness, Original Source Salon.com
Sep 5, 2022 | Mental Illness, Original Source Salon.com
Jul 16, 2021 | Mental Illness, Original Source Salon.com
Feb 4, 2021 | Mental Illness, Original Source Salon.com
Apr 11, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, Mental Illness, Scandals
Published: Salon (April 11, 2016) Life wasn’t easy for Jake Lloyd after his starring role in “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.” As anyone who went to the movies in 1999 will recall, his subpar performance was frequently singled out as a major weakness in a film that was hardly lacking in shortcomings. Lloyd has even discussed how the bullying he received from other kids ultimately...
Dec 17, 2015 | Mental Illness
Published: The Good Men Project (December 17, 2015) Do you want to read an observation about depression that is, well, depressing? I turn to a recent comment by Dr. Joan Luby, the director of the Early Emotional Development Program at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis: “Nobody believed preschoolers could get depressed. People generally assumed children under the age of...
Nov 12, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, Asperger's Syndrome, Autobiographical, Mental Illness
Published: The Good Men Project (November 12, 2015) I recently discovered some lyrics from a Beatles song that resonated so strongly with me that I needed to include them here. Courtesy of "Eleanor Rigby": Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice In the church where a wedding has been Lives in a dream Waits at the window, wearing the face That she keeps in a jar by the door Who is it for? For a moment,...
Oct 2, 2015 | Asperger's Syndrome, Autobiographical, Bullying, Mental Illness
Published: Asperger's 101 (October 2, 2015) If you are a High Functioning Autistic (HFA), the odds are troublingly high that you also suffer from some form of depression. As someone who suffers from depression myself, I’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about how to find happiness when you struggle with the burdens of having an autistic brain. One possibility for the prevalence of...