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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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Self-Starting When Depressed
Self-Starting When Depressed How can you activate yourself to get anything done when you’re depressed? Several readers have asked about this basic need to keep functioning when your mood, mind and body do not want to cooperate. I’ve written...
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Mon, Feb 02 2020 6:00 AM
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Self-Starting When You Are Depressed
Self-Starting When You Are Depressed How can you activate yourself to get anything done when you’re depressed? Several readers have asked about this basic need to keep functioning when your mood, mind and body do not want to cooperate. It’s...
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Conversations with Myself: Accepting the Past
Conversations with Myself: Accepting the Past There are times when I try to shut out a part of the past that makes me uncomfortable. I guess it’s the opposite of the tendency to obsess about everything I ever did wrong. (For example – reliving that...
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Fri, Oct 10 2012 1:24 PM
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Getting to Work When Depressed
Getting to Work When Depressed Simply getting to work when you’re depressed can feel like an impossible task. Dealing with people in the workplace and doing the most basic parts of the job seem to take more energy than you have. The routine becomes hard...
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Inner Beliefs and Outer Action
Inner Beliefs and Outer Action A few months ago, I found a picture of myself from college years that gave no hint of the turmoil of inner beliefs I held at the time. There I was, a lean young guy, sporting a cigarette for a role I was acting. The strange...
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Thu, Oct 10 2012 3:59 PM
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Time Off as the Storied Mind Blog Turns 5
Time Off as the Storied Mind Blog Turns 5 2007 seems a world away from my life today, and many of the changes have come about because of the writing I started five years ago on the Storied Mind blog. Depression felt a lot more dominant then than it now...
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Wed, Jul 07 2012 11:06 PM
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Judy’s Story of Depression and PTSD
Judy’s Story of Depression and PTSD In this post, Judy tells her compelling story of lifelong depression and PTSD as well as her gradual healing and recovery with the aid of innovative therapies such as hypnosis and EMDR. Background As is the case...
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Thu, Jul 07 2012 3:58 PM
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The Friends of Depression at Work
The Friends of Depression at Work (Here’s an edited journal entry from early days of this blog when I was trying to survive depression at work.) I keep looking for a ray of humor in the ongoing torture of trying to work when depressed. This has...
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Mon, Jun 06 2012 10:47 PM
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Before ACT – Doing Depression Right
Before ACT – Doing Depression Right When I started learning about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), the idea that I was doing depression rather than having it as an illness didn’t make a lot of sense to me. I could understand that avoiding...
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Tue, Apr 04 2012 1:38 PM
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A Helpul Documentary on Lawyers with Depression
A Helpul Documentary on Lawyers with Depression A Terrible Melancholy is a documentary about lawyers with depression, but it’s relevant to anyone trying to understand more about the illness. Dan Lukasik, a lawyer who has lived with depression for...
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Sat, Mar 03 2012 3:26 PM
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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...
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Sat, Jan 01 2012 11:36 PM
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The Labor and Life of Gardening
My wife keeps expanding and adding variety to the gardens at our house. For her, they’re a labor of love, rewarding and fulfilling for the work they require. But growing hundreds of different plants isn’t exactly relaxing because there is...
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Fri, May 05 2011 5:03 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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