*Applause* Our perceptions were incomplete and we viewed reality with what experiences we had at the time. Nostalgia can become toxic and keep us from growing.

The way mental health is viewed in media. Their perception is that all mental illness is violent, create multiple personalities or that going off your medication and finding love is all that needs to happen. Silver Linings Playbook was the closest actual interpretation but it hand waved it by the end in such a way…

Ultimately, nostalgia embraces us and keeps us from taking risks on something new. We're afraid to see something we could potentially hate out of fear of being taken advantage of or made to feel like fools. The more lost we feel the more we long for what once was. With the fog of years between our first exposure and…

That Firefly is the best thing ever created and nothing has surpassed it to date. Also, I don't want it to come back. It had its moment and rebooting it would be nothing more than nostalgic self-pleasuring.

I had to research it briefly, but the short story "The Quest for 'Blank Claveringi". I recall checking out an Alfred Hitchcock Presents Book in elementary school and seeing the illustration of a giant snail looming over a running man. I recall few details, but still clearly remember a passage describing the gruesome…

I'm Aaron and I work as a social services coordinator for a Public Defenders office. I'm a licensed therapist who worked with a criminal population with an emphasis on substance abuse and mental illness for nine years before shifting focus. I'm a lifelong geek and found my way onto your website from a local radio…

I've started seeing some people wearing neon colors again. It's like Bugle Boy has started an underground revolution and is beginning to assault my eyes again.

I'm a mental health therapist who has worked in the legal system for a decade. A few things to note. Most mental health professionals entered the field because some person touched their life in some way by helping them fight their own demons. Most of us are as damaged as our clients. The rest are egotistical and…