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No Energy to Start Recovery? Try a Little Light and Color.

Some rights reserved by Nicola since 1972 The hardest thing about recovery can be the first step. It’s an alluring thought to be done with depression, but recovery can seem as overwhelming as the illness you’re trying to end. Since you may...

Published Thu, Aug 12 2010 1:20 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery

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...

Published Sun, Aug 08 2010 2:45 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, depression, treatment, medication, meditation, detachment, symptoms

Posts on Self-Esteem at Health Central

Some Rights Reserved by paul (dex) at Flickr Here are two posts about self-esteem (here and here) I’ve recently published at Health Central. “Loss of self-esteem” has become the clinical term for one of depression’s key symptoms...

Published Wed, Aug 04 2010 12:51 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery

Relationships in Conflict: Action Against Depression

Some Rights Reserved by extranoise at Flickr In recalling how couples I’ve encountered have dealt with conflict in their relationships, two moments come to mind. These were just glimpses, but they stand out as the extremes. Once during a visit to...

Published Wed, Jul 28 2010 4:08 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, depression, emotion, Connecting, communication, conflict, anger, breakthrough, harmony

We Are Most Definitely Not Pleased

Some Rights Reserved by Felinest at Flickr I’m a paws-on kind of guy so I get really upset when they’re tied behind my back. Truly, deeply, combustibly upset, especially with the self-imposed deadline for my new website fast approaching. For...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 12:42 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery

Relationships in Conflict: Depression’s Role

Some Rights Reserved by ComputerHotline at Flickr Depression is a natural enemy of close relationships. It helps build tension and conflict as a once-loving partner either withdraws into emotional isolation or turns angry and blaming. I suppose that’s...

Published Sat, Jul 24 2010 2:11 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, Partners to Depression, partner, Connecting, psychology, conflict, responsibility, emotional reasoning, Causes of Depression, confirmation bias, emotions

What Comes After Recovery from Depression?

Some Rights Reserved by Mike Baird at Flickr In response to a recent post, Clinically Clueless commented that, for her, recovery was a process, not a destination. She needed to keep aware of it, like those recovering from addiction, in order to catch...

Published Fri, Jul 16 2010 12:58 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: life, Recovery, depression, pattern, practice, reconnecting

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...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 11:46 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, feeling, Fear, treatment, meditation, acceptance, success

GentlyMental’s Week for 2010-07-11

Read this great statement: moritherapy's mental health camp talk: insanity in the workplace http://bit.ly/aa3il8 # Who am I talking to in my head all day? Who's in there or really out there whom I need to convince? Of what? # Powered by Twitter...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 12:30 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery

Pema Chodron: Spiritual Teachers are Troublemakers

Belatedly, I need to thank Isabella at change therapy for mentioning Pema Chodron in a post a couple of years ago. That was the first I’d heard of this prominent Buddhist teacher. Isabella listed Chodron’s The Places That Scare You among the...

Published Tue, Jul 06 2010 10:39 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, Buddhism, teaching, spirituality

Fantasies of a Perfect Future in Depression and Emotional Abuse

Some Rights Reserved by gandhiji40 at Flickr I’ve added two posts on emotional abusers at Health Central (here and here). In one I compared the behavior of a depressed man who acts abusively with that of a true emotional abuser. It occurred to me...

Published Thu, Jul 01 2010 6:10 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery

Therapists and Depressed Men

Some Rights Reserved by Travis Hightower at Flickr I spent years in therapy, depressed the whole time, perhaps getting a temporary lift, but quickly losing whatever short-term benefit it may have provided. Apparently, this is a common experience for men...

Published Sun, Jun 27 2010 12:10 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: feelings, Fear, Men and Depression, men, self-esteem, Experience with Treatments, stigma, shame, women, psychotherapy, relationsh

How Lasting is the Impact of Emotional Abuse in Childhood?

Some Rights Reserved by woodleywonderworks at Flickr I’ve worked for a long time on rebuilding self-esteem, though I’ve never been sure whether the lack of it contributed to depression or the depression killed off the self-esteem. It hardly matters...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 11:51 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: abuse

Of Time, Makeovers and Money: Storied Mind at Age Three

Some Rights Reserved by jef_safi at Flickr After three years of writing here about personal struggles – and recovering from depression along the way, I’m making some changes at Storied Mind. It’s not going away. Both the writing and...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 2:46 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery

Psychological Abuse and Depression

Some Rights Reserved by seier+seier at Flickr There have been many times in the past when I’ve run into someone at work who could twist my words to suit his own purpose. If I’d challenged him in some way, he would launch a subtle verbal assault...

Published Fri, Jun 11 2010 1:58 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, therapy, marriage, partner, trauma, victim, emotional abuse, abuse, psychology, psychological abuse

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No Energy to Start Recovery? Try a Little Light and Color.

Getting Ready to Recover

Posts on Self-Esteem at Health Central

Relationships in Conflict: Action Against Depression

We Are Most Definitely Not Pleased

Relationships in Conflict: Depression’s Role

What Comes After Recovery from Depression?

Meditation and Treatment by Tweet

GentlyMental’s Week for 2010-07-11

Pema Chodron: Spiritual Teachers are Troublemakers

Fantasies of a Perfect Future in Depression and Emotional Abuse

Therapists and Depressed Men

How Lasting is the Impact of Emotional Abuse in Childhood?

Of Time, Makeovers and Money: Storied Mind at Age Three

Psychological Abuse and Depression