On the Edge of Social

About the Book

This book was written to pull disarrayed individuals like ourselves back into alignment with self, from a self-divorced-from-self decimation. Depression and anxiety were our lot. We yearned to bridge the gap between ourselves and others. But, what we thought was a social problem all along—we thought we needed more “we”—was actually a deprivation of self. In fact, we needed more “I.” Our social problems were secondary to our identity problem. If you’ve been searching for an answer, look no further—this is the all-out assault on the infrastructure of depression from someone who has been there.

About the Author

Joe B. is a twenty-five-year-old college student. In college, he worked on the student newspaper as staff writer, writing articles that included the legacy of a deceased Provost; the assembly of a world religion conference at Florida International University, including religions from Judaism to Islam; the uncovering of a recycling scandal that, once exposed, spurred the University to install a recycling program the following semester; and his own column, Adventures in Psychoanalysis, which dealt with psychology and spirituality, particularly the universal drama of life, death, and rebirth.

After nine years of searching for a solution to his feelings of isolation—the gray blandness, depression, and anxiety that was his life— he was the same old person. He couldn’t find the necessary change, not until he wrote this book and discovered what Heaven had been trying to tell him all along: we are born of the Spirit; everything is going to be alright; there is a reason we are alive!