Matt's Blog

We live in the Age of Reason. And that’s a pretty good thing. The Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution have made so many things better in so many ways. We should love reason. The thing is though that reason is not a virtue, it is a faculty. Reason basically just means cognition. The ability to think. It’s a tool. It has zero moral significance until it is used to impel action. There is no human behavior other than physical reflexes that occurs without reason first being employed. I think our culture has some very distorted and simplistic views about reason. I believe we are witnessing playout what happens when a culture elevates reason to the status of the highest virtue and basically elevates this human faculty, this tool, to the status of a god. Indeed, there are many in modern society who would like to completely replace God and faith in general with reason. This is an ignorant and catastrophic mistake. I was visiting a dear friend last night and we got to talking, as is our cu

I am going to try and outline a personal recovery plan for climbing out of the pit of depression that I’ve been in for roughly eight years. I also will be striving to improve my overall health and wellbeing. Now, I don’t know how complicated and difficult that may sound to those who are inexperienced and unfamiliar in the world of abnormal psychology and mental health/illness, but believe me, it’s no easy task. This must be about the thousandth time that I have tried to undertake this endeavor. And although I have thought, and fought, long and hard over it, I remain stumped by this problem. I have learned many, many things through my research and experience that are shown to help a significant percentage of people to overcome depression and return to good mental health. These treatments and therapeutic lifestyle changes include everything from medication, talk therapy, exercise, nutrition and supplementation, sleep habits, exposure to UV light, and electro-convulsive therapy, yoga, acu