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Depression Present Tense Now Available

Depression Present Tense Now Available My latest ebook, Depression Present Tense, is now available at Amazon and the other major online retailers. Like Surviving Depression Together and A Mind for Life, it draws together a number of posts from Storied...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2023 8:00 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: life, Recovery, depression, family, childhood, work, Writing, ebooks

Why Writing Helps Heal Depression – 2

Why Writing Helps Heal Depression – 2 As I discussed in this earlier post, writing helps heal the depression that dominated decades of my life. That post reviewed James Pennebaker’s research, as summarized in Opening Up, but said little about...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2022 6:00 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, depression, Fear, anxiety, Writing

Re-Reading the Story of Depression’s Meaning

Re-Reading the Story of Depression’s Meaning There are no more beautiful and moving stories of healing than those told by Rachel Naomi Remen. Kitchen Table Wisdom is one of those books I come back to again and again. Each of its brief stories renders...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2021 6:00 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: life, depression, reconnecting, self, meaning, survival, Purpose, Viktor Frankl, Rachel Naomi Remen

Caught in Panic

Caught in Panic I think of creativity as an opposite of depression. As the driver in my life that connects and communicates, it represents everything I cannot do in the midst of the illness. Yet there was a time when it led to panic. Creativity is usually...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2012 3:39 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, anxiety, creativity, pattern, Creativity and Depression, panic

The Challenge of the Ordinary

The Challenge of the Ordinary When I’m depressed, I dwell most on the failings of the past and the expected disappointments of the future, but there is also the challenge of the ordinary moments of the present. The challenge when depressed is to recognize...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2011 1:19 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: memory, depression, judgment, awareness, mindfulness, well-being, Self-Guided Healing

My Top 5 Movies on Depression

My Top 5 Movies on Depression Movies about the realities of depression don’t usually make much money, and so there aren’t very many good ones. The five films in this post are the best I’ve seen for the realism and dramatic power of their...

Published Sat, Nov 11 2011 12:49 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, suicide, Depression Symptoms, relationships, Resource, movies

Can Depression Make Us Better People?

Can Depression Make Us Better People? Depression can collapse your life the way an earthquake can take down a city. So how could this same depression make us better people? Tom Wootton takes the idea farther than anyone else with his belief that depression...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2011 10:09 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, depression, creativity, spirituality, learning, empathy

Tom Wootton and the Depression Advantage

Tom Wootton and the Depression Advantage Tom Wootton says that a few years ago he would have screamed if anyone had said there was an advantage to depression. So, to get a bit in your face, he named his book, The Depression Advantage. And that book came...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2011 12:21 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, depression, treatment, bipolar, crisis, self-mastery

Self-Acceptance and Depression

Depression is the opposite of many qualities of well-being, and one of them is self-acceptance. Until recently, I hadn’t spent much time in that inner place. Self-rejection had been much more familiar. I came to know every corner of its neighborhood...

Published Sat, Sep 09 2011 2:46 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, awareness, self, relationships, Reconnecting with Life, self-acceptance

Getting a Depression Diagnosis: How Does It Affect Your Life?

Three people who have lived with depression for years talk about the effect on their lives of getting a diagnosis. This is one of the best discussions of discrimination and stigma that I’ve found. The participants are Jim Brown, an engineer, Trisha...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2011 12:24 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, stigma, Depression Treatments, diagnosis, bipolar depression, discrimination

Ecotherapy: Healing Depression in Wilderness and Gardens

Ecotherapy is more than a walk in the woods or watching a beautiful sunset. It’s an emerging form of treatment that can help with healing depression. It aims at restoring the connection to the natural world that is usually limited to high-speed...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2011 4:27 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, healing, nature, senses, ecotherapy, Reconnecting with Life

Depression and Worry: Tales of Mere Existence

I hope you enjoy these classics. They’re good notes to end the summer on. 1. How to Cope with Depression Lev Yilmaz: If you’re feeling down, go to your Co-Workers, Elders, Family and Friends for help. They are sure to give you great, great...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2011 8:00 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, family, friends, Depression Symptoms, worry, coping

Depression Is a Free Fall in Slow Motion

Once my kids pulled me with them up to a water slide. I don’t like sliding through winding tubes and hadn’t done it before. But I couldn’t back out of it once I was standing in a dense line at the top of a 50-foot high platform. Nowhere to go but down...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2011 12:05 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, isolation, trust, Depression Symptoms, survival, falling

I Can’t Let You In

Depression isn’t a one-time disaster in a life relationship. You think you’re through the great crisis. You’re both relieved to have the burden lifted, but little by little you feel the weight pressing down again. It’s back. It will disappear again and...

Published Sun, Aug 08 2011 10:23 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, feeling, love, Partners to Depression, shame, relationships

Grief Instead of Depression at the Death of a Small Friend

It’s like depression in one way. People don’t understand grief for a lost pet unless they’ve been there. We’re there now, once again. A couple of years ago, I updated an early post about grieving the death of an Australian shepherd who had been...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2011 11:58 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, depression, family, death, grief, pet dog

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