Mark Maynard | anxiety

God Bless America

By Mark | February 7, 2012

A few days ago, I posted video here of Bill Murray, on the first episode of Late Night with David Letterman. I have no way of knowing how many people took my advice and watched the clip, which was absolutely brilliant, but it only garnered one comment. (Someone, making the case that he was still […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged American culture, Bill Murray, black comedy, Bobcat Goldthwait, celebrity culture, comedy, depression, Disney, Falling Down, FDR American Badass, Joel Murray, Juno, Late Night with David Letterman, Mark, mental health, OCD, Police Academy, pre-war jazz and blues, reality television, Scrooged, Shakes the Clown, Sleeping Dogs Lie, Tara Lynn Barr, the cesspool that is American culture, the Taliban should win, World's Greatest Dad | 17 Comments

Hereditary shyness

By Mark | June 26, 2011

I had an interesting conversation with Clementine yesterday, between buckets of beer at German Park. I’d been encouraging her to go over and play with the nieces of a friend, who were about her age, and sitting at the base of a tree, building a lunch room for some tiny rubber hamster type things that […]

Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged Clementine, Dan Richardson, Daniel Nettle, David Sloan Wilson, Ellen Siegelman, evolution, Evolution for Everyone, evolutionary tactics, fear of people, German Park, Grazyna Kochanska, insecurity, introverts, Jerome Kagan, Jonathan Cheek, just do it, look before you leap, natural selection, parenting advice, Pat Maynard, psychology, pumpkinseed sunfish, rovers, shy, shyness, sitters, social anxiety, social anxiety disorder | 19 Comments

Laying in bed, hoping it’s not the West Nile virus

By Mark | June 12, 2010

Linette and Clementine are at a kegger tonight at our friend Ruth’s dad’s house, and I’m home alone, sick. If you can believe it, I’m even shakier and sweatier than usual. I guess I’ve got a bug of some kind. Every time I stand up, I get a head rush, but, so far, I haven’t […]

Posted in Mark's Life | Also tagged film noir, Health, keggers I have missed, mental health, Netflix, OCD, panic attacks, shaky, sick, sweaty, West Nile Virus | 18 Comments

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