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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

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

A New Storied Mind Is on the Way

Starting early next week, I’ll be updating this site with a new design and theme. The changeover will enable Storied Mind to incorporate several features that haven’t been possible until now. I’ve also decided to combine the Recover...

Published Thu, Sep 29 2011 3:36 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery

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

Struck by Living – A Memoir of Depression and Recovery

Julie Hersh wrote two versions of Struck by Living about her struggle with suicidal depression. She ended the first one with her hike to the top of a New Mexico mountain in a symbolic celebration of her recovery. A happy, triumphant ending. She bound...

Published Wed, Oct 26 2011 10:58 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, medication, suicide, symptoms, Uncategorized, ECT, Recovery Stories

On the Other Side of Fear

On the Other Side of Fear Fear has a way of setting boundaries that can’t be crossed. If you do cross them, you know you’ll pay a price – a pain or terror you can’t endure. The boundary is protection. Inside it, you’re safe. I think of the anxiety...

Published Sat, Oct 29 2011 7:18 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: memory, therapy, Fear, cognitive behavioral therapy, OCD, boundaries, Self-Guided Healing

Tom Wootton and the Depression Advantage

Tom Wootton and the Depression Advantage Tom Wootton says that a few years ago he would have screamed if anyone had said there was an advantage to depression. So, to get a bit in your face, he named his book, The Depression Advantage. And that book came...

Published Fri, Nov 04 2011 12:21 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, depression, treatment, bipolar, crisis, self-mastery

Can Depression Make Us Better People?

Can Depression Make Us Better People? Depression can collapse your life the way an earthquake can take down a city. So how could this same depression make us better people? Tom Wootton takes the idea farther than anyone else with his belief that depression...

Published Tue, Nov 08 2011 10:09 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Recovery, depression, creativity, spirituality, learning, empathy

My Top 5 Movies on Depression

My Top 5 Movies on Depression Movies about the realities of depression don’t usually make much money, and so there aren’t very many good ones. The five films in this post are the best I’ve seen for the realism and dramatic power of their...

Published Sat, Nov 12 2011 12:49 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: depression, suicide, Depression Symptoms, relationships, Resource, movies

The Divided Brain

The Divided Brain With the aid of rapid-fire animation, this video on the divided brain illustrates part of a lecture by psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. McGilchrist...

Published Mon, Nov 14 2011 10:38 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: brain, experience, Depression-Causes

Can the Mind Heal Depression?

Can the Mind Heal Depression? How can we draw on the power of our own minds to heal depression? As I’ve tried to answer this question, I’ve had to rethink my beliefs about recovery. This is the first in a series of posts to describe what I...

Published Sat, Nov 19 2011 4:04 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: change, Connecting, stress, healing, symptoms, mind

Mind Over Pit Bull and Depression

Mind Over Pit Bull and Depression After a family-rich Thanksgiving week, I was hard at work Sunday morning writing a post on the placebo effect when my wife and I decided to take a refreshing walk with our two dogs. We didn’t know it, but we were...

Published Mon, Nov 28 2011 11:36 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: Fear, stress, mind, brain, mindfulness, attention

The Placebo Effect Helps the Mind Heal Depression

The Placebo Effect Helps the Mind Heal Depression How is it that the mind can heal depression through the placebo effect? Placebo is a meaningless treatment that is presented as the real thing, but it can be almost as effective as antidepressants that...

Published Thu, Dec 01 2011 4:17 PM by Storied Mind

Filed under: belief, treatment, expectation, healing, mind, placebo

Mindful Attention Is a Healing Force

Mindful Attention Is a Healing Force Learning the skills of mindful attention can put you on a slow but steady track of healing. Medication and cognitive therapy try to put you on the fast track, but the effects don’t always last. Though it may...

Published Tue, Dec 06 2011 1:11 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: meditation, healing, awareness, mind, mindfulness, self-help, attention

Finding Purpose in Life – Viktor Frankl

Finding Purpose in Life – Viktor Frankl Viktor Frankl’s central theme was the necessity of finding purpose in life. As he tells the powerful story in Man’s Search for Meaning, he learned that this was the only way to survive the tortures...

Published Thu, Dec 08 2011 8:42 AM by Storied Mind

Filed under: hope, life, meaning, Purpose

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