Written by john on February 23rd, 2008
Some Rights Reserved by Karo666 at Flickr I’ve been looking back at the way I’ve thought about depression and my stance toward dealing with it, and I’ve started to wonder: Could I imagine and adopt in my life a different approach to this illness? What starts me on this track is my encounter with the [...]
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Written by john on February 10th, 2008
Some Rights Reserved by DerrickT at Flickr Patrick has written a comment packed with ideas about his responses to depression. I’m especially interested in three points he makes about creativity and imagination. First, he notes that his years of experience of therapy led him to see it as a “misguided enterprise, that of creating and [...]
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Written by john on February 2nd, 2008
Some Rights Reserved by b5ml at Flickr Depression comes, depression goes, and I have no idea why. Sometimes, I suddenly break out of it through mysterious dreams that wake my whole spirit up. Those are the unexpected blessings, no more to be explained than the sudden recurrence of this illness. There are frightening dreams as [...]
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