Archive for October, 2008

Growing Up Blue: Picturing Depression

Written by john on October 31st, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by ssh at Flickr Have you ever wondered what a very young boy sees when his mother is staring at him through a camera lens? I don’t mean the digital cameras that do the looking for you, leaving your face fully visible as you press a button. I’m thinking of cameras that [...]

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The Sound of Written Words

Written by john on October 25th, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by Juria at Flickr Have you ever wondered what the sound of hundreds, no thousands of blogs on depression and mental health is like? I was looking over these sites at one of the blog rating communities the other day and was struck by the differing tones of so many voices sampled [...]

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Forgiveness & Recovery from Depression

Written by john on October 18th, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by …Zeyneeep! at Flickr Recently, Melinda wrote a post about the role of forgiveness in her recovery and the difficulty she has had in forgiving her unrepentant father for abusing her in childhood. Reading this made me aware that I wasn’t very clear in my own mind about the meaning of forgiveness. [...]

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Theater of Depression

Written by john on October 11th, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by Lady Orlando at Flickr Catatonic Kid (CK) and Isabella have had an inspired exchange of posts in the last couple of months on the use of language and creativity to engage depression, take away its power and release creativity. There are so many ideas and evocative phrases in these posts that [...]

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Real’s Men and Depression

Written by john on October 4th, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by will hybrid at Flickr The other day I looked back at a couple of posts by Therese Borchard at Beyond Blue about the behaviors that distinguish men and women in their responses to depression. She quoted two different studies in posts she published about a year apart, and that’s how long [...]

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