After my last post, my friend James reached out to me quickly. His mother’s depression has worsened over the last days, leaving her in even more misery, with the wish to die on her lips. I have been in this situation so often, I don’t dare to count them. But I managed to survive at least…
This time I wrote James about depressions trickery, that enables it to do damage undetected. As always I tried to write with a calm mind, but the topic makes me very emotional. I hope James will find some of the answers he is looking for... Dear James, Forgive me that it took me so long…
Sometimes depression can be mistaken for sadness, although these are two completely different things. If you want to understand your depressive loved one's struggle better, you need to know that it is nothing like being sad.
You have a loved one who suffers from depression so hard, that they can't make it out of bed? Here is a list of ideas you can try to improve their wellbeing, based on things that help me, when I am in that unpleasant situation.
“I have a very strong question!” Martin was not sure, if questions could be strong, but he could imagine, what Sibylle was trying to say. “Shoot!” Maybe this was also not the best choice of words in this situation. “I watched the incident again and again. And I watched your reactions – to be honest,…
“Gregor!”, yelled Radek. The others joined in: “Gregor, are you alright?” Alexej said: “If that is a joke, it is not a funny one.” Honza stayed calm: “This is surely one of Gregor’s pranks. Well done, Gregor, but I won’t give you an Oscar. That was way too melodramatic.” “Do you think, he is alright?”,…
In lockdowned Prague Martin stumbles over another murder mystery. This time it hits really close to home...
Dear Ronin, Do You remember the task you gave me at the beginning of winter? You asked me to talk to the moles in your garden, to go into hibernation. It was a challenging task, I have to admit. My experience with talking to moles comes down to two encounters. One very sad one about…
This writing challenge was born out of the abstract of a computer science paper on the topic of theorem provers, one of my muses is working on. I read it and immediately had this crime story idea. That says a lot about me and my brain, I guess... (and how it can find murder in…
Once upon a time there was a lion. Not a complete lion, he was a halfbred. Half lion, half human. He lived in a human world, in a human city and did human things all day long. One stormy night, he met someone, who was a bit like him: A tigress, half human, half beast.…
