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Stories of Recovery: Elyn Saks

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness is the powerful memoir of Elyn Saks’ life with paranoid schizophrenia. A prominent law professor and winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Award, Saks struggled for years to get her delusional...

Published Tue, Oct 26 2010 10:23 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery

Stories to Explain My Life with Depression

Some Rights Reserved by Minerva Pictures at Flickr Stories can be an immediate and moving way to learn about someone because they evoke the feelings and experience that factual details never can. When told with honesty and sincerity, a story helps establish...

Published Fri, Oct 15 2010 4:16 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: hope, life, Recovery, depression, belief, story, meaning

Progress on the New Site

Image: All Rights Reserved by John Folk-Williams Just a note to update you on the new site, now called Recover Life from Depression. Its purpose is to share my experience of recovery, as I have done here, but in a form that emphasizes more specifically...

Published Fri, Oct 08 2010 5:16 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery

Why Therapy Can Work: Ideas from Brain Research

Some Rights Reserved by A Journey Round My Skull at Flickr Brain research is one of those many scientific fields that I’ll never know much about, but I find it important to get even a limited understanding of the direction of recent findings. It...

Published Wed, Sep 29 2010 9:13 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: memory, Recovery, feelings, emotion, psychotherapy, brain, mindfulness, Depression Treatments, cognitive therapy

Why You Can’t Command Depression

Some Rights Reserved by kennymatic at Flickr When you’ve been in the midst of severe depression, have you groaned in exasperation: “Why can’t I control this? How can this keep happening? I should be able to will it away. Why can’t...

Published Fri, Sep 24 2010 3:59 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, emotion, feeling, will, brain, thought, Neuroscience

Why You Can’t Wish Depression Away

Some Rights Reserved by kennymatic at Flickr (I’ve changed the title of this post because I realize the earlier version sounded too sweeping. This post is focused on the way we can beat ourselves up for not being able to will or wish depression...

Published Fri, Sep 24 2010 3:59 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, emotion, will, brain, Neuroscience

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...

Published Tue, Sep 21 2010 12:31 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, treatment, psychiatry, spirituality, medications, alternatives, withdrawal

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...

Published Mon, Sep 20 2010 4:19 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, belief, therapy, treatment, mindset, breakthrough

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...

Published Sat, Sep 11 2010 3:51 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, treatment, psychiatry, healing, holistic, mental health, government, consensus, policy

Declaring Independence from Depression

Some Rights Reserved by iChaz at Flickr Here’s one part of a post from a couple of years ago, written a few months before I knew I’d really gotten past depression. Stephany at Soulful Sepulcher had suggested that I try assuming this: I have...

Published Tue, Sep 07 2010 1:57 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, depression, independence, shame, self, mind, shadow

Depressed Men Gone: The Open Door

Some Rights Reserved by BrittneyBush Many women write here of the baffling strangers their depressed husbands or partners have become. Most often, they describe one of two versions of the unrecognizable men they’ve been trying to live with. One...

Published Fri, Sep 03 2010 10:49 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, feeling, Partners to Depression, partner, men, communication, emotions, leaving, spouse, thinking

Despondex: Sure Cure for the Annoyingly Cheerful

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Published Sat, Aug 28 2010 11:35 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Mental Health Practice

Meditation and a Prayer for Healing

Some Rights Reserved by nds808v at Flickr This is an edited and shortened version of a post on meditation I did some time ago. The prayer at the end remains important to me, so I thought I’d put it up again. I hope it makes some sense to you. Here...

Published Wed, Aug 25 2010 10:17 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, depression, emotion, Fear, meditation, peace, prayer

On Health Central: How One Man Fights Depression

Some Rights Reserved by prudencebrown121 at Flickr My new post at Health Central talks about picking up on the early warning signs of depression. Since I tend to need a big picture to figure out what to do, I found it when forced by desperation to look...

Published Sun, Aug 22 2010 10:11 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, Fighting Depression, Men and Depression, men, healing, shame, anger, symptoms, recognition, self-defeating

What Do You See in the Mirror When You’re Depressed?

Some Rights Reserved by Atiqah Aekman W. at Flickr Here’s a post I wrote at Health Central about a year ago. There are a couple of China Beach stories I keep coming back to, and I hope this one is as helpful to you as it has been to me. Quite a...

Published Wed, Aug 18 2010 10:16 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, depression, belief, therapy, self-esteem, acceptance, shame, Symptoms of Depression

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