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Revisiting: Acting the Roles of Depression This revised post from the early days of Storied Mind seems especially relevant to the work I’m doing with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Sometimes I’ve interpreted certain life and career choices...
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Jocelyn’s Recovery Story Every now and then a reader offers insights about his or her own recovery story in the form of a comment on a particular post. As I did with Peter’s story, I like to give them more prominence by re-posting in the blog...
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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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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...
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How to have a conversation when the topic scares scares you both. Read More...
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The toughest job to being a parent is to teach young kids to behave. This is an essential task that molds the child into the person he or she should be. Values are learned and in learning these, discipline ought to be consistent and effective. But since...
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07-18-2011
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Why I try to understand depression, I find too few words with too many meanings. This isn’t quibbling over semantics. It’s about what you feel when living with depression and what you feel when you can finally live without it. It’s about the experience...
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How many times have you held back because you feared something?
I’ve been pondering “fears” lately. Recently, I received a comment from a reader who is hard of hearing and struggling with anxiety– “Social groups are almost...
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“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
This quote by Eleanor Roosevelt is something that I remind myself of every now and then. Fear is often the emotion behind the reason we hold back. “What if…”
One of the hardest...
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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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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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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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06-27-2010
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Filed under: feelings, Fear, Men and Depression, men, self-esteem, Experience with Treatments, stigma, shame, women, psychotherapy, relationsh
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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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Therapy for depression usually meant talking about the world I was seeing, the thoughts I had, the pain I felt, the judgments about me I projected onto others – all me, all the time. Once, I was talking...
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As I discussed in this earlier post, writing has helped heal the depression that dominated decades of my life. That post reviewed James Pennebaker’s research, as summarized in Opening Up, but said little...