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Antidepressants, 6 months in: FAQ

About 6 months ago I tried something new. I started taking antidepressants.

So, half a year in, how is it going?

Honestly, it's been awesome. It's also something people really seem to want to know about. Here's my Antidepressant FAQ:

Do they work? What is the difference?

For me, definitely. They don't work for everyone, and some people have to do a lot of back and forth to find a good dose, but it was a huge, positive change for me.

The change that I noticed is that I suddenly felt like myself again. In this case, that meant feeling like I once again had the energy and mental capacity to deal with life and my problems. I wasn't being held back by an energy-sucking slime monster anymore, I could just be myself and face the world.

At first, of course, it was a hugely noticeable change. I had the stark contrast of before and after fresh in my mind. After a few months, my new normal became normal, and it's no longer special. I just continue to feel like Regular And…

How to spot a Mennonite

EDITOR'S NOTE: This little post has somehow become the most popular thing I have ever written, as well as the first time I have gotten blowback on my blog. The blowback was about the racism that is happening in some Mennonite churches against those who don't share the heritage I describe. I wanted to add a note addressing this, because otherwise my post could be seen as encouraging this kind of discrimination.

To be clear, I see being Mennonite as both an ethnic heritage and a Christian denomination. You can be a Mennonite because you joined a church and subscribe to Mennonite beliefs and/or you can be a Mennonite because you were born into a Mennonite family (in which case, you may not even have religious beliefs). This is possible because of the unique history of Mennonites: what began as a purely religious movement became a culture and ethnicity as the people who started the movement joined together from their different countries of origin and separated themselves from the …

Challenge Follow-Up: What Happened After 24 Hours Without Complaining

Yesterday I challenged myself to go 24 hours without complaining. While I generally consider myself to be a pretty positive person, I figured that I could still learn something from intentionally shutting down my complaints.

Here's what I learned:

1) It's easy to forget.

I intended to start my challenge first thing in the morning yesterday, and didn't remember until around 2pm (2:03pm to be exact) when I shared the blog post to my Facebook page and realized that I had completely forgotten to start. So I instantly rescheduled and told my coworkers about it so they could remind me/shame me if I forgot and complained.

Still, I forgot a bunch of times about the challenge, and I don't expect my coworkers spent the day worrying about whether I was complaining or not, so they probably forgot too. This means that I'm not entirely sure how successful I was.

2) I didn't really know how to define complaining.

I didn't define my terms before I began. At one point a …

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