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Achieving Profound Change with Coherence Therapy
Achieving Profound Change with Coherence Therapy Psychotherapists can help us make breakthroughs in dealing with depression, but often the insights gained during a session don’t lead to permanent change. Why is it that we can’t always put the new...
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Tue, Nov 13 2012 3:21 PM
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About Commenting on Storied Mind
About Commenting on Storied Mind Comments have always been an essential part of Storied Mind. When I started this blog in 2007, like any other neophyte I felt I was speaking to a big empty auditorium. Readers who chose to comment were the first readers...
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Thu, Nov 08 2012 10:51 PM
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Can You Be a Therapist for Your Depressed Partner?
Can You Be a Therapist for Your Depressed Partner? A couple of readers have asked me to comment on whether it’s possible or advisable to try to act as a ‘therapist’ for your depressed partner. This idea came out of responses to one of the posts on relationships...
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Thu, Nov 01 2012 9:22 PM
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Conversations with Myself: Accepting the Past
Conversations with Myself: Accepting the Past There are times when I try to shut out a part of the past that makes me uncomfortable. I guess it’s the opposite of the tendency to obsess about everything I ever did wrong. (For example – reliving that...
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Fri, Oct 26 2012 1:24 PM
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Changing Core Beliefs of Depression
Changing Core Beliefs of Depression Getting well depends in part on changing core beliefs of depression that often begin to develop early in life. According to recent neuroscience findings, putting together a narrative about who you are is one of the...
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Thu, Oct 18 2012 11:55 AM
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Announcing a Few Changes at Storied Mind
Announcing a Few Changes at Storied Mind As I learn more about what people search for and actually read here, I’ve been planning changes at Storied Mind to make it a more useful resource. You’ll be seeing a number of these changes over the...
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Tue, Oct 16 2012 10:29 PM
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Getting to Work When Depressed
Getting to Work When Depressed Simply getting to work when you’re depressed can feel like an impossible task. Dealing with people in the workplace and doing the most basic parts of the job seem to take more energy than you have. The routine becomes hard...
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Fri, Oct 12 2012 1:35 PM
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Inner Beliefs and Outer Action
Inner Beliefs and Outer Action A few months ago, I found a picture of myself from college years that gave no hint of the turmoil of inner beliefs I held at the time. There I was, a lean young guy, sporting a cigarette for a role I was acting. The strange...
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Thu, Oct 04 2012 3:59 PM
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How Do We Change in Psychotherapy?
How Do We Change in Psychotherapy? The first session I ever had with a psychiatrist proved to me that I could achieve a real change in psychotherapy. While in college, I had been immobilized by panic attacks and was desperate to get help. I spent three...
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Sat, Sep 29 2012 4:47 PM
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Compassion for a Burned Man
Compassion for a Burned Man I wasn’t expecting anything out of the ordinary that evening, but I wound up in the hospital with a burned hand and, at least in retrospect, a little insight about compassion. It started after work one day when I had just sat...
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Wed, Sep 26 2012 2:49 PM
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On Writing a Recovery Ebook
On Writing a Recovery Ebook I want to give you an overview of my new ebook on recovery from depression and hopefully get your thoughts on the approach I’m taking. Even though I’ve written a great deal about recovery, I have found it difficult...
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Fri, Sep 21 2012 10:42 PM
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How Setting Boundaries Helped Me Heal
How Setting Boundaries Helped Me Heal My getting depressed after the cancer operation almost did us in. It was the blow that forced my wife to remind me of the boundaries I couldn’t afford to ignore. I had been in high spirits for the operation and right...
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Tue, Sep 18 2012 10:16 PM
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Fear of Change in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Fear of Change in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy One of the interesting things about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is that you can’t think about it too much. You have to do it. Hence the acronym ACT, to be spoken as the word. If you try to understand...
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Wed, Sep 12 2012 11:25 PM
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The Delusions of Depression
The Delusions of Depression I’ve had several moments in recovery when I realized that things I assumed to be true were really delusions of depression. Some were long-held beliefs about myself, others were briefly held convictions that were too far from...
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Fri, Sep 07 2012 10:03 AM
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10 Top Movies about Depression and Bipolar
10 Top Movies about Depression and Bipolar Posts reviewing movies about depression are consistently among the top pages visited on this site. That fact surprised me, though I suppose it shouldn’t have. For all the insight I gain through reading...
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Tue, Sep 04 2012 4:50 PM
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