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The Effect of PTSD on the Families of Combat Veterans
These two videos convey a sense of what’s it’s like to live with a veteran suffering from combat-related PTSD. The first briefly profiles a family portrayed at greater length in the film, This Emotional Life, shown on PBS earlier this year...
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Tue, Apr 27 2010 2:30 PM
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At Health Central: More on PTSD, Veterans’ Families and Suicide
This new post on Health Central brings together stories told by several spouses of veterans with combat PTSD about family life dominated by this complicated illness. In the videos of the previous post here, two of these spouses talked frankly about how...
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Sun, May 02 2010 9:50 AM
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Growing Up with Fear and Depression
Some Rights Reserved by D Sharon Pruitt at Flickr I’ve always wondered why the stories of veterans with PTSD, like those I’ve been reading for the recent posts here and at Health Central, have always resonated so deeply. I have nothing close...
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Fri, May 07 2010 9:42 PM
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Misunderstood Epidemic: Depression
Video made available by Ironzeal This video is a short preview of one of the best films on depression I’ve seen. Broadcast originally on PBS last fall, The Misunderstood Epidemic is being shown again on a varying schedule around the country. If...
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Mon, May 10 2010 7:12 PM
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Health Central Post on Treatments for PTSD and Depression
Some Rights Reserved by carlotardani at Flickr My new post at Health Central describes some of the alternative treatments the military is now experimenting with – all of them aiming at short-term alleviation of major symptoms. I’ve contrasted...
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Sun, May 16 2010 11:55 AM
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Patterns of Recovery from Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Some Rights Reserved by Guanatos Gwyn at Flickr My mother survived two heart attacks but died twice before her death. That’s the way she saw it. Her heart stopped both times, but she fought her way back. The second heart-stopping attack occurred during...
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Wed, May 26 2010 12:05 PM
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The Problem of Now in Recovery from Depression
Some Rights Reserved by monkeytime at Flickr For a long time, I found it hard to relate to the idea of living in the present moment as a method of recovery from depression. The present never seemed all that attractive when I felt smothered by its darkness...
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Tue, Jun 08 2010 2:06 PM
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Psychological Abuse and Depression
Some Rights Reserved by seier+seier at Flickr There have been many times in the past when I’ve run into someone at work who could twist my words to suit his own purpose. If I’d challenged him in some way, he would launch a subtle verbal assault...
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Fri, Jun 11 2010 1:58 PM
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Of Time, Makeovers and Money: Storied Mind at Age Three
Some Rights Reserved by jef_safi at Flickr After three years of writing here about personal struggles – and recovering from depression along the way, I’m making some changes at Storied Mind. It’s not going away. Both the writing and...
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Mon, Jun 14 2010 2:46 PM
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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...
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Tue, Jun 22 2010 11:51 PM
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Therapists and Depressed Men
Some Rights Reserved by Travis Hightower at Flickr I spent years in therapy, depressed the whole time, perhaps getting a temporary lift, but quickly losing whatever short-term benefit it may have provided. Apparently, this is a common experience for men...
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Sun, Jun 27 2010 12:10 AM
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Fantasies of a Perfect Future in Depression and Emotional Abuse
Some Rights Reserved by gandhiji40 at Flickr I’ve added two posts on emotional abusers at Health Central (here and here). In one I compared the behavior of a depressed man who acts abusively with that of a true emotional abuser. It occurred to me...
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Thu, Jul 01 2010 6:10 PM
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Pema Chodron: Spiritual Teachers are Troublemakers
Belatedly, I need to thank Isabella at change therapy for mentioning Pema Chodron in a post a couple of years ago. That was the first I’d heard of this prominent Buddhist teacher. Isabella listed Chodron’s The Places That Scare You among the...
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Tue, Jul 06 2010 10:39 PM
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GentlyMental’s Week for 2010-07-11
Read this great statement: moritherapy's mental health camp talk: insanity in the workplace http://bit.ly/aa3il8 # Who am I talking to in my head all day? Who's in there or really out there whom I need to convince? Of what? # Powered by Twitter...
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Mon, Jul 12 2010 12:30 AM
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Meditation and Treatment by Tweet
Some Rights Reserved by dicktay2000 at Flickr When deeply depressed, it’s not the fear of failure I carry but the fear that success is getting too close. When I’m living in the timeless Now, what happens to hope, to a future, to recovery? I think...
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Mon, Jul 12 2010 11:46 PM
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