Katherine Loftus

This may be the most articulate response I’ve ever heard to this question.

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

"When parents pray for their children, God hears them, angels move, and great things happen. Pray with faith, and do not worry." - St. Padre Pio Padre Pio is reminding us that a parent’s prayer is powerful because it is rooted in love and trust in God. Scripture shows us that God listens to the prayers of the faithful, especially when they are offered with faith and perseverance. Parents have a real role in bringing their children closer to God, not by control, but by interceding for them. Even when nothing seems to change, God is still working in ways we cannot see. Prayer invites grace into your child’s life, and grace is what truly transforms a heart. 💬 Do you really believe your prayers can change your child’s life, or have you started to give up without realizing it?

The Father is my Hope. The Son is my Refuge. The Holy Spirit is my Protector. Glory be to the Holy and undivided Trinity now and forever🙏 . Mother Mary be a Mother to me.. St. Joseph, most obedient, pray for me🙏

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@apthirteen So bizarre. What do they have against the Tigers?

Barring any trades, the Panthers, former residents of Memorial Stadium, have made their final pick of the 2026 #NFLDraft, continuing their streak as the only active NFL franchise that has not drafted a Clemson Tiger in their history.

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Pierced. Crushed. Punished. Oppressed. Afflicted. Healed. O, that rugged cross. My salvation.

Uncoachable players have short careers. They flinch at feedback. They make excuses. They need praise. The best? They hunt coaching. Feedback is a gift. Cash it in.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​💰

@apthirteen We lost the first two games to ND. What the heck is going on up there?

lmao yep.

Sounds like Clemson is about to lose a baseball game because the game is not on TV, so there’s no camera angle to review a controversial potential interference. Woof.

Great news, Ohio State fans. Greenville is only a 4-hour drive from Myrtle Beach, and your whole weekends just opened up.

March 19 - Happy Feast Day St. Joseph St. Joseph never preached. He never wrote. He never performed miracles. He simply obeyed. And that quiet obedience changed the history of the world.

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Clemson MBB players react to their 2026 NCAA Tournament placement at Littlejohn Coliseum … Tigers are the No. 8 seed in the South Region and will open against No. 9 Iowa in Tampa, Florida on Friday. Likely a second round game vs. No. 1 Florida

@ClemsonTigers @ClemsonUniv Absolutely amazing!!

THE CLASS OF THE FIELD!!! Gladys Chepngetich is the NCAA Champion in the Women's Indoor 800 meters! 🐅🏆

@chapelfowler @T_Oglesby22 Great article Chapel! Enjoyed reading about T.O. and it helped me understand how he transitioned from Clemson basketball player into broadcasting.

New: Clemson's Terrence Oglesby (@T_Oglesby22) used to get paid in hot dogs to call D2 games. Now he's a rising star in the hoops broadcasting industry, with a growing TV portfolio that includes ESPN, Field of 68 and the Charlotte Hornets. Feature story: thestate.com/sports/college…

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@ClemsonWBB @BendyStrawTiger Absolutely beautiful.

Before her first ACC Tournament, we wanted to give Rachael a special message From Home 🧡💜