by Mark Maginn | Jul 28, 2015 | Depression |
Read Part One I want to focus on two ideas about the nature of suicide among those of us suffering from uncontrolled pain (UP). It goes without saying that persons with pain (PWP) also suffer from depression. This depression can be the result of the multitude of...
by Mark Maginn | Jul 21, 2015 | Depression |
Suicide is a topic on which thousands of words have been spent. I’ll try not to cover ground already churned over well by others. I intend to focus only on uncontrollable pain and the act of suicide. It is well known that suicide is one of the leading causes of death...
by Mark Maginn | Jan 27, 2015 | Daily Living |
I have been for some time feeling better. So how come I’m having trouble describing it and believing it? I am ambivalent writing about this or even talking about it as #1: superstition tells me to keep it to myself as telling anyone about this turn of events is a...
by Mark Maginn | Oct 22, 2014 | Advocacy, Pain Policy |
I never met John Jay “Bill” Hays even though he lived not far from me in California. He was just a year younger than me and had we met we most likely would have been friends. It’s one of life’s strange coincidences that several years ago, in his home town of...
by Mark Maginn | Aug 26, 2014 | Coping Techniques, Daily Living, Exercise |
This may seem paradoxical. Even though I’ve been disabled for 20 years, I’ve been able to walk for nearly 4 miles most mornings in spite of having extensive spinal surgery 15 years ago. There are mornings when either the pain or the colitis has hold of me and I stay...
