Monthly Archives: October 2020

Not Stressed Enough? Add Some More! A Paradoxical Approach to dealing with 2020, By Dr. Nathan McClelland

That’s not a misprint or a joke. I’m not sadistic (as far as I know), so please bear with me. To briefly set the stage: it is October of 2020, and the dizzying array of stressors associated with 2020 continues unabated. COVID-19, political unrest, racial tensions, economic insecurity, and their downstream consequences have resulted in…

Dealing With This Depressive Dystopia: Ecclesiastes, COVID, and the Paradoxical Commandments, by Dr. Jeffrey Singer

Before you think there is a new diagnosis being hoisted on the public, please be rest assured that “depressive dystopia” is my term for how I view our current collective condition. COVID life has helped create a societal malaise that has pushed our emotional tolerances to a state of constantly uncomfortable surrealism. Sometimes it feels…