Depression

The Benefits of Smiling: Why you should find one (or 100) reason(s) to smile every day!

Humans are a naturally smiley species. We appear to begin smiling even while we’re still in the womb. There are so many emotional and...

Did My Personality Type Cause My Bipolar?

One of my several bookcases of binders I used to pride myself on my total type-A personality. Over-achiever, control freak, wannabe...

Tips to avoid the “depression demon”

A portrait of me that my daughter, Tami Hammond-Collins, painted during one of my depressive episodes. Ouch! In mid-January, I was out...