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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...
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Fri, Jul 07 2023 8:00 AM
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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...
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Mon, Jan 01 2022 6:00 AM
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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...
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Mon, Dec 12 2021 6:00 AM
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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...
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Wed, Jan 01 2012 3:39 PM
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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...
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Wed, Dec 12 2011 1:19 AM
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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...
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Sat, Nov 11 2011 12:49 PM
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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...
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Tue, Nov 11 2011 10:09 AM
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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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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...
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Sat, Sep 09 2011 2:46 PM
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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...
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Tue, Sep 09 2011 12:24 AM
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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...
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Mon, Sep 09 2011 4:27 PM
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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...
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Wed, Aug 08 2011 8:00 PM
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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...
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Thu, Aug 08 2011 12:05 AM
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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...
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Sun, Aug 08 2011 10:23 AM
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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...
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Mon, Aug 08 2011 11:58 AM
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