Personal Stories Articles
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- The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
The Long Goodbye by poet and literary critic Meghan O’Rourke is a beautifully written and poignant memoir about grappling with a mother’s death.
In the first of three sections, O’Rourke recounts her mother's colon cancer ...
- Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch
It is hard to summarize and review Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch without an undercurrent of disgust, even when trying to temper it with pity. Derrick Lin’s self-published work, written in “a matter of ...
- Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
In her memoir Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading, author Nina Sankovitch recounts the year she spent reading a book a day in hopes of soothing her grief. Sankovitch’s oldest sister, ...
- The Way of the Comedian
This article has been excerpted from Humor’s Hidden Power: Weapon, Shield and Psychological Salve by Nichole Force, M.A.
According to a tale in the ...
- Navigating College with Borderline Personality Disorder
I was recently diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) after spending two weeks in a mental hospital following two failed ...
- A Dog Named Slugger: How Service Dogs Improve the Lives of Many
Consider these surprising studies concerning the benefit of trained service dogs to help all kinds of ...
- Better By Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong
Intellectually we know that making a mistake gives us the opportunity to learn and grow. Still, that usually does little to assuage our shame, embarrassment and guilt when making an error. Of course, it depends ...
- What I Wish I Knew in Grad School: Current and Former Students Share 16 Tips
Graduate school is both an incredibly challenging and rewarding time in ...
- The River of Forgetting
In this elegant and deceptively simple memoir by Jane Rowan, her River of Forgetting has filled a need within the context of healing from childhood sexual abuse. Most such books deal with specific, visual memories. ...
- Book Review: Mortal Bonds
Losing one parent is devastating. But losing both parents within 13 days of each other? In his eBook memoir, Mortal Bonds, John Tsilimparis recounts his parents’ difficult deaths, his father from various health conditions and ...
- Katherine Kitty Dukakis on ECT
Katherine Kitty Dukakis presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are her remarks as published in the public ...
- Donald Johnson on ECT
Donald Johnson presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are his remarks as published in the public ...
- Mary Rosedale on ECT
Mary Rosedale presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are her remarks as published in the public record ...
- Dr. David Boger on ECT
Dr. David Boger presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are his remarks as published in the public ...
- Lauren Tenney on ECT
Lauren Tenney presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are her remarks as published in the public record ...
- Carol Jean Reynolds on ECT
Carol Jean Reynolds presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are her remarks as published in the public ...
- Dr. Daniel Fisher on ECT
Dr. Daniel Fisher presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are his remarks as published in the public ...
- Dorothy Dundas on ECT
Dorothy Dundas presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are her remarks as published in the public record ...
- Evelyn Scogin on ECT
Evelyn Scogin presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are her remarks as published in the public record ...
- Amy Lutz on ECT
Amy Lutz presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are her remarks as published in the public record ...
- Anita Hagin on ECT
Psychiatric nurse Anita Hagin presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are her remarks as published in the ...
- Dr. John Breeding on ECT
Dr. John Breeding presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are his remarks as published in the public ...
- Julie Hersh on ECT
Julie Hersh presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are her remarks as published in the public record ...
- Dr. William Narrow on ECT
Dr. William Narrow presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are his remarks as published in the public ...
- Dr. Robert Roca on ECT
Dr. Robert Roca presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Neurological Devices Panel examining the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices on January 27, 2011. These are his remarks as published in the public ...
