Help, I've fallen, and I can't get up! Thoughts on my 36th trip around the sun.

It's a subtle, gradual, insidious process, and if you find yourself identifying with any of the warning signs that I identify here, beware.

A subscriber who is a fellow writer and who suffers from a mental illness that isn't addiction emailed me with kind words about my piece...

This picture has nothing to do with rehab; it's a seaside resort in Southern China. There are rehabs that look like this, though. On the...

First Step of NA / AA: We admitted that we were powerless over drugs / alcohol; that our lives had become unmanageable. Doctor please,...