Hand in Hand, Heart to Heart
With loving help from others, the old emotional distresses that can sabotage both our mental health and our relationships in community can be cleared and permanently resolved.
Tough Grace
For 12 years, a once-proud career woman struggled with manic depression, becoming a “bag lady” and experiencing more than a dozen hospitalizations, before entering recovery.
Communicable Gifts
Both healthy ideas and unhealthy ideas can take hold and spread like viruses. Suicidal tendencies and eating disorders provide invaluable lessons to one communitarian.
Gifted, Mad, and Out of Control
The author recounts his personal history with the “mentally ill”—social misfits who can show us the way to a better world, if they are allowed to make the journey.
Further Thoughts on a Community’s Changes
This companion piece to Elderhood, In and Out of Community gives further reflections from community members.
Getting Elder All the Time
Community can be balm for the discomforts of aging, just as elders’ wisdom and caring can soothe the growing pains of youth.