Fear and anxiety

To the Anxious This Election Day

by Bill Brenner November 3, 2020 Fear and anxiety

I can’t predict what the coming period will bring. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to let it push me into a corner.

Truth-Based Fears: Helping Us Adapt

by Bill Brenner April 27, 2020 Fear and anxiety

Fears based on facts and truth can help us adapt and overcome.

Physical Distancing Doesn’t Mean Social Distancing

by Bill Brenner March 20, 2020 Fear and anxiety

With available technology, we can keep a physical distance and still be social.

5 Examples of Humanity’s Best Amid COVID-19

by Bill Brenner March 19, 2020 Fear and anxiety

The war footing we’re on with COVID-19 isn’t ending anytime soon. But there are myriad examples of humanity doing the right things and making progress.

Finding Meaning in a COVID-19 War Footing

by Bill Brenner March 18, 2020 Fear and anxiety

Social distancing sucks after a while. But all is not lost.

Joking About COVID-19

by Bill Brenner March 17, 2020 Fear and anxiety

“Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life.”

Researching COVID-19 When You Have Depression, Anxiety and OCD

by Bill Brenner March 15, 2020 Fear and anxiety

One of my biggest OCD habits has always been a tendency to over-research things. In 2005-06, when some “experts” predicted an H5N1 bird flu pandemic that would kill as many or more people as Spanish Flu in 1918-19, I googled “bird flu” multiple times a day and would go five pages deep per search. You can find some terrifying shit in a search like that. That period and the one we’re now living through has brought three…  [Read More]

I Had Nothing Left to Say. Then Came COVID-19.

by Bill Brenner March 14, 2020 Fear and anxiety

It’s been a long time since I’ve been here, deciding there was nothing left to say about life with OCD, depression and anxiety. I learned to live with it, accepted that ups and downs would be part of the journey (they have been) and saw others stepping up to share their challenges in powerful fashion. So I departed, leaving the blog online for those who might get use from it. My work here was done….  [Read More]

Pearl Harbor Reflection: Why Does God Let This Happen?

by Bill Brenner December 7, 2015 Faith

I know some people who hate God right now. One lost a child to illness. Several have simply had a bad run of luck in recent years. They can’t understand why an all-loving God lets bad things happen to them. I used to be there: When my brother died or when my friend Sean Marley  died. In the aftermath of those events, I wasn’t on speaking terms with God. At other points in my life, like my struggle…  [Read More]

Remembering Cliff Burton, Metallica’s Original Bassist

by Bill Brenner September 27, 2015 Coping tools

I couldn’t let the day go by without acknowledging a grim anniversary. Twenty-nine years ago today, Metallica bassist Cliff Burton was killed when the band’s tour bus flipped over on a lonely road in Sweden. Mood music:  The band’s first three albums had a huge impact on me. In fact, Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” album helped me get through my last major attack of Crohn’s Disease. It might seem bat-shit crazy of me to intertwine these…  [Read More]

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