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A New Model of Mental Health Recovery
A New Model of Mental Health Recovery My understanding of mental health recovery came from experience with the standard treatments: psychotherapy and medication. Until the 1990s, I worked exclusively with psychiatrists for both. In that setting, I can’t...
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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...
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Fri, Nov 11 2011 12:21 AM
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Recovery from Depression: the Power of Expectation
Recovery from depression depends in part on what you believe is possible for the future. If you are to recover at all, you have to take action at some point. It could be a series of small steps about your daily routine – eating breakfast, walking...
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Mon, Jul 07 2011 1:35 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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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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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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Getting Ready to Recover
Some Rights Reserved by flikr at Flickr In thinking about how I managed to rid myself of depression, I’ve realized the importance of getting ready to recover. This idea never occurred to me during many failed attempts to find a way out of the underworld...
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Sun, Aug 08 2010 2:45 PM
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Meditation and Treatment by Tweet
Some Rights Reserved by dicktay2000 at Flickr When deeply depressed, it’s not the fear of failure I carry but the fear that success is getting too close. When I’m living in the timeless Now, what happens to hope, to a future, to recovery? I think...
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Mon, Jul 07 2010 11:46 PM
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Patterns of Recovery from Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Some Rights Reserved by Guanatos Gwyn at Flickr My mother survived two heart attacks but died twice before her death. That’s the way she saw it. Her heart stopped both times, but she fought her way back. The second heart-stopping attack occurred during...
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Wed, May 05 2010 12:05 PM
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A New Post at Health Central on Combat Trauma and PTSD
Some Rights Reserved by Will Lion at Flickr I’ve published a new post at Health Central, the second in a series on depression and related problems among veterans. This one looks at PTSD from the perspective of soldiers who’ve been through...
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Sat, Apr 04 2010 2:50 PM
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Reflections in Mind: Sherwin Nuland’s Recovery from Depression
Some Rights Reserved by onkel_wart at Flickr An important part of my recovery has been exploring emotional memory when I respond so deeply to a story or song or even just a moment in a film that somehow reaches right inside. A feeling long held back flows...
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Fri, Feb 02 2010 10:59 AM
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Is There Comfort in Depression?
Some Rights Reserved by Andy Saxton at Flickr The question continues to puzzle me: How did I get over depression? That deep change began about 18 months ago, and it’s been a year since I knew for sure that something fundamental had shifted. The...
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Mon, Nov 11 2009 10:12 AM
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