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Here One Day: A Documentary about a Mother’s Suicide

Here One Day trailer from Kathy Leichter on Vimeo. Suicide is a sensitive subject for most readers of this blog, certainly for me, and watching any film about it is difficult. I wanted to post this 9-minute preview of Kathy Leichter’s documentary...

Published Tue, Jun 28 2011 11:58 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, family, mother, trauma, suicide, bipolar

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

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...

Published Thu, Aug 25 2011 12:05 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, isolation, trust, Depression Symptoms, survival, falling

Peter’s Recovery Story – Part 1

Peter’s Recovery Story – Part 1 Peter told his recovery story as an extended comment recently, and I wanted to give it a more prominent place as another in our ongoing series of personal stories. Because of its length, it will be posted in...

Published Thu, Dec 15 2011 2:37 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: father, childhood, self-esteem, emotional abuse, Recovery Stories, teenage depression

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...

Published Mon, Jan 03 2022 6:00 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, depression, Fear, anxiety, Writing

At Health Central: More on PTSD, Veterans’ Families and Suicide

This new post on Health Central brings together stories told by several spouses of veterans with combat PTSD about family life dominated by this complicated illness. In the videos of the previous post here, two of these spouses talked frankly about how...

Published Sun, May 02 2010 9:50 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, families, suicide

Depression Diagnosis – 2: What Does It Mean to You?

Depression Diagnosis – 2: What Does It Mean to You? Once you have a depression diagnosis , what does it mean to you? I’ve heard a lot of reactions, ranging from a feeling of comfort to dismay to a shrug of the shoulders. A diagnosis is simply a...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2021 6:00 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: hope, medication, symptoms, diagnosis, Psychiatric Treatment, disease, neurotransmitters, message

Depression Diagnosis – 1: The Person or the Disorder?

Depression Diagnosis – 1: The Person or the Disorder? A depression diagnosis usually marks a turning point in your experience of the illness. Up to that point, you may have downplayed the seriousness of mood problems, or you may have been less aware...

Published Mon, Jun 28 2021 6:00 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: psychiatry, symptoms, diagnosis, Psychiatric Treatment, DSM

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

Storied Mind Ebooks Ready to Go!

Storied Mind Ebooks Ready to Go! Well, it took a little longer than I expected, but the two Storied Mind ebooks are now available at most of the major online sites, including Amazon, Apple iBooks, Kobo, B&N Nook and a lot of others I’ve only...

Published Tue, Jul 26 2022 6:00 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, Writing, Blogging, ebooks

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...

Published Sat, Sep 24 2011 2:46 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, awareness, self, relationships, Reconnecting with Life, self-acceptance

Brief Dreams of Recovery – 2

Some Rights Reserved by dean_forbes at Flickr In this dream, I heard myself saying: I am waking up out of the earth. I wasn’t at all sure what that meant. Was it supposed to be some mythic arising, or was it just another way of seeing myself as...

Published Thu, Oct 22 2009 9:11 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery

Depressed: When Control Is Out of Control

Why I try to understand depression, I find too few words with too many meanings. This isn’t quibbling over semantics. It’s about what you feel when living with depression and what you feel when you can finally live without it. It’s about the experience...

Published Thu, Jun 16 2011 4:26 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Fear, isolation, awareness, anger, Depression Symptoms, control

A New Model of Mental Health Recovery

A New Model of Mental Health Recovery My understanding of mental health recovery came from experience with the standard treatments: psychotherapy and medication. Until the 1990s, I worked exclusively with psychiatrists for both. In that setting, I can’t...

Published Mon, Oct 11 2021 6:00 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, treatment, psychiatry, self-help

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...

Published Fri, Jul 21 2023 8:00 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: life, Recovery, depression, family, childhood, work, Writing, ebooks

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