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Why Therapy Can Work: Ideas from Brain Research
Some Rights Reserved by A Journey Round My Skull at Flickr Brain research is one of those many scientific fields that I’ll never know much about, but I find it important to get even a limited understanding of the direction of recent findings. It...
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Wed, Sep 29 2010 9:13 PM
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Why You Can’t Command Depression
Some Rights Reserved by kennymatic at Flickr When you’ve been in the midst of severe depression, have you groaned in exasperation: “Why can’t I control this? How can this keep happening? I should be able to will it away. Why can’t...
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Fri, Sep 24 2010 3:59 PM
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Why You Can’t Wish Depression Away
Some Rights Reserved by kennymatic at Flickr (I’ve changed the title of this post because I realize the earlier version sounded too sweeping. This post is focused on the way we can beat ourselves up for not being able to will or wish depression...
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Fri, Sep 24 2010 3:59 PM
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A Blog Has Ended – A Great Resource on Recovery Remains
I’d like to offer a tribute and thanks to Gianna Kali for the incredible work she has done at Beyond Meds over the last four years. She has not only created a major resource on recovery but has done so during a difficult and often debilitating withdrawal...
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Tue, Sep 21 2010 12:31 PM
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Health Central Posts on Recovery
Some Rights Reserved by bala at Flickr Last week I published two posts at Health Central (here and here), describing the beliefs and attitudes I needed before I could begin to recover. That meant finding a mindset for recovery, but it wasn’t just...
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Mon, Sep 20 2010 4:19 PM
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A New Model of Recovery from Mental Illness
Some rights reserved by falcon0125 at Flickr My understanding of recovery from depression came from experience with the standard treatments: psychotherapy and medication. Until the 1990s, I worked exclusively with psychiatrists for both. In that setting...
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Sat, Sep 11 2010 3:51 PM
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Declaring Independence from Depression
Some Rights Reserved by iChaz at Flickr Here’s one part of a post from a couple of years ago, written a few months before I knew I’d really gotten past depression. Stephany at Soulful Sepulcher had suggested that I try assuming this: I have...
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Tue, Sep 07 2010 1:57 PM
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Depressed Men Gone: The Open Door
Some Rights Reserved by BrittneyBush Many women write here of the baffling strangers their depressed husbands or partners have become. Most often, they describe one of two versions of the unrecognizable men they’ve been trying to live with. One...
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Fri, Sep 03 2010 10:49 PM
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