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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...
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Wed, Oct 07 2009 3:39 PM
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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...
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Tue, Sep 29 2009 8:29 PM
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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...
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Wed, Sep 23 2009 8:56 PM
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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...
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Fri, Oct 16 2009 9:26 PM
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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...
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Thu, Oct 22 2009 9:11 PM
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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...
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Wed, Oct 28 2009 11:23 AM
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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...
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Fri, Nov 06 2009 2:49 PM
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Is There Comfort in Depression?
Some Rights Reserved by Andy Saxton at Flickr The question continues to puzzle me: How did I get over depression? That deep change began about 18 months ago, and it’s been a year since I knew for sure that something fundamental had shifted. The...
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Mon, Nov 16 2009 10:12 AM
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Depressed: No Friends, No Life
Some Rights Reserved by Ashley_Rose at Flickr Lately, I’ve come across a number of questions online by plainly anguished people, asking: Why do I have no friends, no life? The first time I saw one this blunt, I reacted almost defensively, laughing as...
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Mon, Nov 23 2009 9:10 AM
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Trying to Explain Recovery from Depression
Some Rights Reserved by spettacolopuro at Flickr A friend recently asked me if I could help him understand the change for the better I’ve experienced in the last couple of years. At the same time, a reader here asked if I could elaborate on what...
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Fri, Dec 04 2009 1:48 PM
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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...
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Sat, Dec 12 2009 5:31 PM
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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...
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Sun, Dec 20 2009 4:57 PM
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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...
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Fri, Jan 01 2010 11:08 AM
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More Blogging at Health Central
Some Rights Reserved by irisb477 at Flickr I’m blogging twice a month now at MyDepressionConnection.com, one of the many sites at Health Central devoted to specific problems. Here’s where you can find my posts. They’ve seen fit to dub...
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Fri, Jan 08 2010 4:08 PM
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Sherwin Nuland’s Story of Recovery & Electroconvulsive Therapy
Sherwin Nuland is the best-selling author of How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter and many other books. As he says in this video, he had never before disclosed the experience behind the spiritual dimensions of his writing until presenting...
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Sat, Jan 09 2010 3:16 PM
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