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What Comes After Recovery from Depression?
Some Rights Reserved by Mike Baird at Flickr In response to a recent post, Clinically Clueless commented that, for her, recovery was a process, not a destination. She needed to keep aware of it, like those recovering from addiction, in order to catch...
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Fri, Jul 16 2010 12:58 PM
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Relationships in Conflict: Depression’s Role
Some Rights Reserved by ComputerHotline at Flickr Depression is a natural enemy of close relationships. It helps build tension and conflict as a once-loving partner either withdraws into emotional isolation or turns angry and blaming. I suppose that’s...
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Sat, Jul 24 2010 2:11 PM
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We Are Most Definitely Not Pleased
Some Rights Reserved by Felinest at Flickr I’m a paws-on kind of guy so I get really upset when they’re tied behind my back. Truly, deeply, combustibly upset, especially with the self-imposed deadline for my new website fast approaching. For...
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Tue, Jul 27 2010 12:42 PM
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Relationships in Conflict: Action Against Depression
Some Rights Reserved by extranoise at Flickr In recalling how couples I’ve encountered have dealt with conflict in their relationships, two moments come to mind. These were just glimpses, but they stand out as the extremes. Once during a visit to...
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Wed, Jul 28 2010 4:08 PM
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Posts on Self-Esteem at Health Central
Some Rights Reserved by paul (dex) at Flickr Here are two posts about self-esteem (here and here) I’ve recently published at Health Central. “Loss of self-esteem” has become the clinical term for one of depression’s key symptoms...
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Wed, Aug 04 2010 12:51 PM
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Getting Ready to Recover
Some Rights Reserved by flikr at Flickr In thinking about how I managed to rid myself of depression, I’ve realized the importance of getting ready to recover. This idea never occurred to me during many failed attempts to find a way out of the underworld...
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Sun, Aug 08 2010 2:45 PM
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No Energy to Start Recovery? Try a Little Light and Color.
Some rights reserved by Nicola since 1972 The hardest thing about recovery can be the first step. It’s an alluring thought to be done with depression, but recovery can seem as overwhelming as the illness you’re trying to end. Since you may...
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Thu, Aug 12 2010 1:20 PM
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What Do You See in the Mirror When You’re Depressed?
Some Rights Reserved by Atiqah Aekman W. at Flickr Here’s a post I wrote at Health Central about a year ago. There are a couple of China Beach stories I keep coming back to, and I hope this one is as helpful to you as it has been to me. Quite a...
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Wed, Aug 18 2010 10:16 AM
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On Health Central: How One Man Fights Depression
Some Rights Reserved by prudencebrown121 at Flickr My new post at Health Central talks about picking up on the early warning signs of depression. Since I tend to need a big picture to figure out what to do, I found it when forced by desperation to look...
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Sun, Aug 22 2010 10:11 AM
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Meditation and a Prayer for Healing
Some Rights Reserved by nds808v at Flickr This is an edited and shortened version of a post on meditation I did some time ago. The prayer at the end remains important to me, so I thought I’d put it up again. I hope it makes some sense to you. Here...
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Wed, Aug 25 2010 10:17 PM
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Despondex: Sure Cure for the Annoyingly Cheerful
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Sat, Aug 28 2010 11:35 PM
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Depressed Men Gone: The Open Door
Some Rights Reserved by BrittneyBush Many women write here of the baffling strangers their depressed husbands or partners have become. Most often, they describe one of two versions of the unrecognizable men they’ve been trying to live with. One...
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Fri, Sep 03 2010 10:49 PM
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Declaring Independence from Depression
Some Rights Reserved by iChaz at Flickr Here’s one part of a post from a couple of years ago, written a few months before I knew I’d really gotten past depression. Stephany at Soulful Sepulcher had suggested that I try assuming this: I have...
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Tue, Sep 07 2010 1:57 PM
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A New Model of Recovery from Mental Illness
Some rights reserved by falcon0125 at Flickr My understanding of recovery from depression came from experience with the standard treatments: psychotherapy and medication. Until the 1990s, I worked exclusively with psychiatrists for both. In that setting...
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Sat, Sep 11 2010 3:51 PM
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Health Central Posts on Recovery
Some Rights Reserved by bala at Flickr Last week I published two posts at Health Central (here and here), describing the beliefs and attitudes I needed before I could begin to recover. That meant finding a mindset for recovery, but it wasn’t just...
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Mon, Sep 20 2010 4:19 PM
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