Comments on Basement Dwellers: On Joey Votto

I'm glad to see someone pointing this out. So many...

2009-06-25T19:17:36.716-04:00

I'm glad to see someone pointing this out. So many athletes come off as dishonest, whether they're trying to cover up their drug use, or just trying to project an image that is palpable for the media. Votto comes off human here...very refreshing.

Brad, I didn't have to deal with the extraneous s...

2009-06-25T09:57:55.341-04:00

Brad,

I didn't have to deal with the extraneous stuff you are coping with, but I can certainly identify. I was sometimes at the point that I literally felt nauseous even sitting down in my chair, and I know there were literally days that went by when I had nothing to do but write and yet didn't get a thing done. I felt like a complete loser, but I just couldn't make myself do it. It was way beyond just procrastination. It was genuinely a physical aversion to the process..

All I can say is to try to hang in there. And to try to set some small, achievable goals to gets yourself going. Make a table or figure, for example. Or put together an outline of a chapter that you can start to fill in with more and more detail. I know you're not asking for advice, but some of those things did help me get going.
-j

I really sympathize with Votto and your friends ab...

2009-06-25T01:30:07.469-04:00

I really sympathize with Votto and your friends about this. I've been battling depression for a while now. I was supposed to finish my dissertation last August, but it's still as yet not done. All the research is there but I developed a severe case of writer's block and can't seem to finish it. Then I lost my grandma and uncle within a week of each other and have had other personal relationship problems. Being unemployed is not helping either. It's seems too overwhelming at times and am having trouble coping. It's a catch-22 really, I know what I need to do to overcome the depression, but what I need to do is exactly what the depression makes so difficult. I'm glad to hear Votto got the help he needed.