January 2012 - Storied Mind - The Network of Care

Healing and the New Medicine

Healing and the New Medicine Just as recent psychotherapies emphasize the healing power of the mind, a new approach to the practice of medicine draws on the inner resilience of each person to participate in recovery. The excellent documentary, The New...

Published Sat, Jan 28 2012 11:30 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: hope, treatment, healing, hypnosis, medicine

How Stress Can Shape a Life Story

How Stress Can Shape a Life Story The psychologist Richard O’Connor believes that we tell ourselves stories about our lives to control stress. Stress has a way of becoming a chronic condition. It wears down your body and damages your brain, especially...

Published Wed, Jan 25 2012 4:09 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: life, stress, awareness, story, Self-Guided Healing

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 18 2012 3:39 PM by Storied Mind

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

How Depression Spreads

How Depression Spreads Depression spreads through the closest relationships almost like a communicable disease. I learned the hard way that the illness didn’t happen to me alone. It happened to my children, my friends, and most of all to my wife. The...

Published Sat, Jan 14 2012 11:00 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: feelings, family, marriage, partner, isolation, relationships, Depressed Partners, intimacy

How Do You Find Storied Mind Posts?

How Do You Find Storied Mind Posts? These days, readers are finding Storied Mind posts by many different routes. You don’t have to visit the blog at all if you can read a post in Facebook, email or an RSS reader. Or you may get to the site by following...

Published Tue, Jan 10 2012 12:49 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Blogging, poll

Revisiting: Real Depressed Men Don’t Cry

Revisiting: Real Depressed Men Don’t Cry This is an edited version of one of the first posts I wrote for Storied Mind. ………. I’m not sure where the following came from, but it turned up on my cyber doorstep recently. I guess...

Published Sat, Jan 07 2012 11:36 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: feelings, Men and Depression, men, work, grief

What Do You Like to Read on Storied Mind?

What Do You Like to Read on Storied Mind? Looking ahead for this year, I’d like to know which topics you most often read on Storied Mind. Your answers will help me make the writing here as responsive as possible to your needs. So I hope you’ll...

Published Fri, Jan 06 2012 11:18 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Uncategorized

Have a Brave New Year for Living Well

Have a Brave New Year for Living Well Summoning up hope and resilience for living well in 2012 helps a lot more than the brief energy for a few resolutions. So my number one wish for you, for all of us dealing with depression, is to find a way to accept...

Published Tue, Jan 03 2012 2:05 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: hope, acceptance, Blogging, insight

January 2012 - Storied Mind

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