The Crumple Zone
Ben Pobjie,
Ben Pobjie's Wonderful World Of Objects,
May 12, 2011
I'll post my own story, one day. For now, I'll post this item (via Keith Lyon's Clyde Street) from Ben Pobjie on the comedian's struggles with depression. It - and the 192 comments that followed - offer yet another lesson on how valuable, how useful, it is to be able to post our thoughts for the world to read and respond. One of the single greatest things about the internet is that it has told millions of people - some with depression, some with Lupus, some who like knitting - you are not alone. (On a totally unrelated note, I note with interest that the Google advertisements on the page are providing results on sleep apnea. The ads are deceptive and misleading advertisements about non-existent Canadian government grants (and Google should be ashamed of them). But the idea that Google adwords links depression and sleep apnea is interesting, and a tantalizing hint of the sort of diagnostic tools that we could create in the future, tools that could be used for good, rather than to rip people off).
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