Writing can help in the struggle to recover life from major depression. The focus is on changing the destructive inner beliefs and despair that can threaten life. I share my experiences in the hope that others can find them useful in fighting depression.
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Over the past year, I’ve been trying to get a better understanding of mindfulness and its role in recovery from depression. Mindfulness, of course,...
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Lately, I’ve come across a number of questions online by plainly anguished people, asking: Why do I have no friends, no life? The first time I saw one this blunt, I reacted almost defensively, laughing...
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The question continues to puzzle me: How did I get over depression? That deep change began about 18 months ago, and it’s been a year since I knew for sure that something fundamental had shifted. The...
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Over and over, I find online stories about the transformation of a loving partner, most often a man, into a depressed stranger. As I’ve often written here, I have been that stranger.
I’ve told several...
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When I was growing up, no one ever talked about depression. I didn’t know what it was, and the moods I went through didn’t get much reaction from my parents. Yet I spent a lot of time isolating myself, not...
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In this dream, I heard myself saying: I am waking up out of the earth. I wasn’t at all sure what that meant. Was it supposed to be some mythic arising, or was it just another way of seeing myself as so...
A thought provoking blog, very insightful and beautifully written. A very useful resource for people with mental illness, or those just wanting to learn more.
John's writing is superb and takes you into his experiences as if you were there. You can feel what he is writing about including his turmoil, anguish, pain, depression, happiness, etc. This blog is on my read daily list. He is inspiring in who he is and in how he writes.
