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Depression in a Red Suit: On the Holidays Past and Future

Some Rights Reserved by Auntie K at Flickr So that was Christmas … and what have you done … It happens every December, the moods of so many darken in the midst of the season of joy, and bloggers write about how to survive the holidays. Depression...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2010 11:08 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Connecting

Making Decisions When Depressed

Some Rights Reserved by AMagill at Flickr Like so many, I experience depression in various forms, yet each in its own way knocks out the decision control center in my mind. At times, I scramble in anxiety and can’t focus enough to pick out one among...

Published Wed, Sep 23 2009 8:56 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, Fighting Depression

The Return of Storied Mind

Well, it took a while, but we're back with a much expanded site. I had thought we could switch to this new format gradually, but it didn't work out that way. We had to finish the redesign offline, merge the content of two sites and then make the...

Published Sat, Oct 22 2011 5:12 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Uncategorized

Recovery through Learned Optimism

Some Rights Reserved by kern.justin at Flickr In an earlier post I described the way I used to think about mistakes, failure and success. I could never do anything right. If I happened to do something well, I knew it was either a fluke or not really as...

Published Sun, Dec 20 2009 4:57 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery

Trying to Work When Depressed: New Posts at the Recover Life Blog

I’ve recently completed a series of posts at the Recover Life site about handling the effects depression at work. I’ve written about this topic here as well, especially in this post about changing careers. The new series offers more detail...

Published Wed, Apr 27 2011 10:37 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: change, depression, stress, Depression at Work, workplace

From Depression Through Recovery to Life as Creative Experience

Some Rights Reserved by ebergcanada at Flickr All that I am, all that life has made me, every past experience that I have had – woven into the tissue of my life – I must give to … new experience. … [The] past … has indeed...

Published Sat, Dec 12 2009 5:31 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery

Prozac for Crowd Control?

Some Rights Reserved by Image Zen at Flickr I’ve heard of a number of off-label uses for antidepressants, but turning them into non-lethal weapons for crowd control is a new one for me. The Soft-Kill Solution in the March Harper’s describes...

Published Sun, Feb 21 2010 12:00 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: research, chemical weapons, antidepressant, Mental Health Practice, Pentagon

Announcing a Brief Technical Interruption

Today, June 13, starting at 12:00 AM Pacific Daylight Savings Time, we will be suspending comment and contact functions at Storied Mind. The reason is that we are shifting the hosting home of the blog to a new service. It’s one of those short-term...

Published Wed, Jun 12 2013 11:10 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Blogging

Getting a Depression Diagnosis: How Does It Affect Your Life?

Three people who have lived with depression for years talk about the effect on their lives of getting a diagnosis. This is one of the best discussions of discrimination and stigma that I’ve found. The participants are Jim Brown, an engineer, Trisha...

Published Tue, Sep 20 2011 12:24 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, stigma, Depression Treatments, diagnosis, bipolar depression, discrimination

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

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

Do You Have to Lower Your Expectations of Life to Recover?

Donna-1 recently asked me this question in a comment at Recover Life from Depression. I’ve often mentioned how important it has been to my recovery that I made basic changes in my work and way of living as a whole. Since making those changes I haven’t...

Published Sun, May 08 2011 3:14 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery

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

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

What Do You Like to Read on Storied Mind?

What Do You Like to Read on Storied Mind? Looking ahead for this year, I’d like to know which topics you most often read on Storied Mind. Your answers will help me make the writing here as responsive as possible to your needs. So I hope you’ll...

Published Fri, Jan 06 2012 11:18 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Uncategorized

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Depression in a Red Suit: On the Holidays Past and Future

Making Decisions When Depressed

The Return of Storied Mind

Recovery through Learned Optimism

Trying to Work When Depressed: New Posts at the Recover Life Blog

From Depression Through Recovery to Life as Creative Experience

Prozac for Crowd Control?

Announcing a Brief Technical Interruption

Getting a Depression Diagnosis: How Does It Affect Your Life?

Posts on Self-Esteem at Health Central

We Are Most Definitely Not Pleased

Do You Have to Lower Your Expectations of Life to Recover?

How Lasting is the Impact of Emotional Abuse in Childhood?

Stories of Recovery: Elyn Saks

What Do You Like to Read on Storied Mind?