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My Top Books for Understanding Depression and Recovery – 2 Understanding depression and getting serious about recovery take a lot of searching. Reading is one of easiest tools to use, and the classic books in this highly personal list may help you...
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What I Carry into the New Year I’ve been pausing at the beginning of this new year not to puzzle over resolutions but to keep myself from making any. As I mentioned in this week’s newsletter, I much prefer Rick Hanson’s approach to lightening up at the...
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It seems that the majority of my posts end up coming across as discussions on why it is important to reach out for support if you are struggling with a perinatal mood or anxiety disorder like postpartum depression, which makes sense, I guess, since I...
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How Setting Boundaries Helped Me Heal My getting depressed after the cancer operation almost did us in. It was the blow that forced my wife to remind me of the boundaries I couldn’t afford to ignore. I had been in high spirits for the operation and right...
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10 Top Movies about Depression and Bipolar Posts reviewing movies about depression are consistently among the top pages visited on this site. That fact surprised me, though I suppose it shouldn’t have. For all the insight I gain through reading...
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Reconnecting Depressed Partners Despite Fear and Shame Men and women have the same need and longing to connect with each other, but they also have different ways of reacting to stress that can drive them apart. Psychotherapist Patricia Love believes that...
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A Stage for Anxiety (Anxiety has dominated more of my waking hours than I care to admit, yet I’ve written relatively few posts about it. While working on the next ebook, Depression Present Tense, I came across this early post that captures a typical...
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Revisiting: Removing Barriers to Closeness This is a new version of an early post about how my wife and I were able to keep our relationship together despite the impact of depression. It discusses a therapeutic approach to emotional awareness that draws...
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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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Brene Brown on the Power of Vulnerability Brene Brown’s video on vulnerability hit me where I breathe. That simple. She touches on most of the themes – other than depression itself – that I’ve struggled with and written about for...
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Last winter I attended a blogging conference in Nashville called Blissdom. One of the keynote speakers was Brene Brown. I have to admit I hadn’t heard of her, so I had no idea what to expect. Then she opened her mouth and an entire ballroom full...
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Depression isn’t a one-time disaster in a life relationship. You think you’re through the great crisis. You’re both relieved to have the burden lifted, but little by little you feel the weight pressing down again. It’s back. It will disappear again and...
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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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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...