Listening to the news...

A judge refused to allow a divorce because the woman is pregnant. WTF?

Brooke Shields, after trying everything for two years, finally has a baby - and suffers post-partum depression. I'm really impressed that she made it public; and in listening to the interview was reminded that most people still have a stigmatized view of depression. She herself refused to consider she might be depressed, and when the medication helped her, she decided that it was just time healing all and stopped the medication - and crashed badly. She said that she was ashamed, and that she felt like she should just be able to power through it...

*sigh*

At some point we'll know enough medically & scientifically to show exactly what causes depression, and maybe then people will accept it as an illness, rather than a character flaw.



In other news, to aid in interrogations in Guantanamo, american soldiers have been defiling the Qur'an (by doing things like dropping it in toilets, etc.) to encourage prisoners to talk. Seven people so far have died in the protest riots in Afghanistan, and Pakistan has filed a formal complaint against the United States.

And yet some people will still argue that the US is doing the right thing. These are undoubtedly the same people who say "blood is thicker than water" and refuse to consider that their family/child could be in the wrong in any given situation.



Makes me think my whole urge to become a hermit in high school was the right way to go after all. Can you be a hermit if you take your husband and kids with you?