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Depressed Men Behaving Badly Can Stop

Depressed Men Behaving Badly Can Stop There’s a story on this site that never, unfortunately, gets old. It’s about depressed men breaking up their relationships as a misguided way to get well and find fulfillment. The psychotherapist, David...

Published Fri, Jun 15 2012 8:51 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: feelings, marriage, Men and Depression, partner, men, authenticity

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...

Published Fri, Oct 12 2012 1:35 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: family, work, stress, Depression at Work, avoidance, disability, self-worth

Achieving Profound Change with Coherence Therapy

Achieving Profound Change with Coherence Therapy Psychotherapists can help us make breakthroughs in dealing with depression, but often the insights gained during a session don’t lead to permanent change. Why is it that we can’t always put the new...

Published Tue, Nov 13 2012 3:21 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: memory, change, emotion, pattern, psychotherapy, behavior

If Your Partner’s Depression Returns

If Your Partner’s Depression Returns When depression ends, a couple may be blinking in happy disbelief as they emerge into the light again from a long darkness in the relationship. They’ve been desperate to understand how an intimate partner could...

Published Tue, Dec 30 2014 9:28 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: partner, treatment, Depressed Partners, intimacy, empowerment

Jocelyn’s Recovery Story

Jocelyn’s Recovery Story Every now and then a reader offers insights about his or her own recovery story in the form of a comment on a particular post. As I did with Peter’s story, I like to give them more prominence by re-posting in the blog...

Published Fri, Mar 09 2012 5:48 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: feelings, belief, Fear, shame, Recovery Stories, God

Learning How to Live Well Again

Learning How to Live Well Again One of the strange things about recovering from depression is that the condition is so pervasive getting better can feel like learning how to live all over again. There’s a lot of disagreement about what recovery means...

Published Tue, Jul 17 2012 8:46 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, change, mindset, acceptance, learning, disease

Resources for Acceptance and Mindfulness Approaches to Depression

Resources for Acceptance and Mindfulness Approaches to Depression Before getting into my experiences with acceptance and mindfulness, I wanted to mention the specific psychotherapies and self-help resources I’ve been working with. I’m no expert...

Published Sun, Mar 25 2012 3:34 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: belief, treatment, meditation, acceptance, mind, self-help, Resource

Waking Up a Depressed Partner

Waking Up a Depressed Partner I remember years ago talking with a friend about his recent divorce and remarriage and mentioning the stressful time my wife and I had been having at that time. He bluntly suggested: Well, why don’t you leave? I told him...

Published Mon, Jul 02 2012 2:25 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: marriage, partner, Connecting, awareness, psychotherapy, Depressed Partners, relational mindfulness

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

Depression Relapse and Resilience

Depression Relapse and Resilience Sometimes relapse into depression comes on like the weather, suddenly there, a change in the atmosphere you breathe and the temperature and moisture of the air around you. I’ve been feeling that lately and find myself...

Published Tue, Nov 20 2012 3:52 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: judgment, medication, movies, self-worth, relapse, value, Reslience

Changing Core Beliefs of Depression

Changing Core Beliefs of Depression Getting well depends in part on changing core beliefs of depression that often begin to develop early in life. According to recent neuroscience findings, putting together a narrative about who you are is one of the...

Published Thu, Oct 18 2012 11:55 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: change, belief, identity, healing, mind, brain, story

Is There a Link Between Mindfulness and Hypnosis?

Is There a Link Between Mindfulness and Hypnosis? In looking for ideas about the power of the mind in healing, I’ve never thought about a possible link between mindfulness and hypnosis. Until now. Michael Yapko claims there is a close connection between...

Published Wed, Dec 28 2011 3:18 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: therapy, meditation, awareness, mind, mindfulness, hypnosis, dissociation

“A Mind for Life” Ebook Is Now Available

“A Mind for Life” Ebook Is Now Available I’m happy to announce that A Mind for Life, my ebook on recovery from depression, is now available. Unlike many recent books about how to deal with the illness, this one focuses on the inner work...

Published Tue, Feb 26 2013 4:51 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: hope, Recovery, belief, therapy, awareness, ebooks

Beyond Depression to Guiding Values

Beyond Depression to Guiding Values Acceptance and Commitment Therapy reminds me of the tense time I spent learning how to drive a car. Venturing onto a two-lane highway, I fixed my mind on the big worry – how to get where I wanted to go without...

Published Mon, Apr 09 2012 4:17 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: feelings, psychotherapy, self-help, attention, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, values, commitment

Why Talking to Myself Makes Sense

Why Talking to Myself Makes Sense I’ve tried to stop talking to myself, but I haven’t had much luck. I’m referring to the silent internal conversation that accompanies almost every waking moment when my attention is left on its own....

Published Tue, Jun 05 2012 12:57 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: awareness, reconnecting, thinking, self, mind, mindfulness, well-being

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