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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...
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Mon, Nov 28 2011 11:36 PM
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The Friends of Depression at Work
The Friends of Depression at Work (Here’s an edited journal entry from early days of this blog when I was trying to survive depression at work.) I keep looking for a ray of humor in the ongoing torture of trying to work when depressed. This has...
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Mon, Jun 11 2012 10:47 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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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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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...
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Thu, Dec 01 2011 4:17 PM
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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...
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Tue, Dec 06 2011 1:11 AM
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Starting a New Series on Acceptance
Starting a New Series on Acceptance Is it possible to learn to live well using an acceptance approach to depression rather than the strategy of trying to suppress or avoid it? That’s the question I want to explore in this new series of posts. Most of...
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Wed, Mar 21 2012 10:16 AM
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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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Moving from Pain to Recovery
Moving from Pain to Recovery I have learned a lot about recovering from depression by studying methods for dealing with chronic pain. Now I have had a chance to turn this around. How can my skills in dealing with depression help me manage post-operative...
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Sat, Aug 03 2013 12:41 PM
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The Surviving Depression Together Ebook Is Now Available
The Surviving Depression Together Ebook Is Now Available I’m pleased to announce, after many technical and personal delays, that the first ebook in the Best of Storied Mind series is now available. Surviving Depression Together contains new versions...
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Fri, May 25 2012 3:52 PM
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Overcoming Resistance
Overcoming Resistance Writing is a way of reclaiming my mind from depression, but there is a darker side to it called resistance. I won’t call it writer’s block because the same thing stands in the way of any purposeful activity or major life commitment...
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Tue, May 29 2012 3:56 PM
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Revisiting: Real Depressed Men Don’t Cry
Revisiting: Real Depressed Men Don’t Cry This is an edited version of one of the first posts I wrote for Storied Mind. ………. I’m not sure where the following came from, but it turned up on my cyber doorstep recently. I guess...
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Sat, Jan 07 2012 11:36 PM
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Recent Posts on the Storied Mind Newsletter
Recent Posts on the Storied Mind Newsletter If you haven’t yet subscribed to the Storied Mind Newsletter, I’d like to give you a glimpse of the posts you’ve been missing. Each week the newsletter has a new one, but you can only read...
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Fri, Apr 06 2012 8:40 PM
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John Gottman on Trust in Relationships
John Gottman on Trust in Relationships John Gottman’s recent work on trust (presented in The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples) is a helpful resource for couples trying to deal with depression. These two brief videos are excerpts...
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Fri, Apr 20 2012 10:33 PM
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Peter’s Recovery Story – Part 2
Peter’s Recovery Story – Part 2 Be sure to read Part 1 of this self-help recovery story about the development of Peter’s depression from childhood through the teenage years. Adulthood I moved a lot, even from country to country, but...
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Fri, Dec 16 2011 4:43 PM
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