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Are You Still You When Your Partner Is Depressed?

Some Rights Reserved by pargee at Flickr Over and over, I find online stories about the transformation of a loving partner, most often a man, into a depressed stranger. As I’ve often written here, I have been that stranger. I’ve told several stories...

Published Fri, Nov 06 2009 2:49 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, marriage, Men and Depression, identity, Partners to Depression, partner, interdependence, Connecting, loss, independence
Looking Out for Life

Some Rights Reserved by macropoulos at Flickr When I was growing up, no one ever talked about depression. I didn’t know what it was, and the moods I went through didn’t get much reaction from my parents. Yet I spent a lot of time isolating...

Published Wed, Oct 28 2009 11:23 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Fear, father, family, hurt, anxiety, mood, childhood, fighting, mother, home, Growing Up with Depression, brother
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
Brief Dreams of Recovery – 1

Some Rights Reserved by Jeff Bauche at Flickr Dreams are what they are, and I won’t try to explain them in rational or symbolic terms. The feeling of this one was all good. It came as recovery was at last getting to be the real thing. After a long and...

Published Fri, Oct 16 2009 9:26 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, feeling, dream, mask, mirror, actor
Doubt is Depression’s Last Stand

Some Rights Reserved by drp at Flickr It’s been one thing to get depression out of my life. It’s been another to get it out of my memory. Still holding on, it keeps playing tricks with the past. Vivid memories of old words and actions while depressed...

Published Wed, Oct 07 2009 3:39 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: future, hope, doubt, memory, life, Recovery, change, truth, feelings, past, self-deception, depression, fantasy, belief
Talking Honestly about Depression

Some Rights Reserved by exper at Flickr I’ve always had trouble talking honestly about depression, in therapy or out. Even though much of its influence is gone, this remnant of depression is still holding on. I was always able to report the latest news...

Published Tue, Sep 29 2009 8:29 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, truth, depression, emotion, feeling, What Depression Can Do, dread, present, therapy, talk, time, love, Fear, energy
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

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Are You Still You When Your Partner Is Depressed?

Looking Out for Life

Brief Dreams of Recovery – 2

Brief Dreams of Recovery – 1

Doubt is Depression’s Last Stand

Talking Honestly about Depression

Making Decisions When Depressed