Posts Tagged ‘assumptions’

Trying to Explain Recovery from Depression

Written by John on December 4th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by spettacolopuro at Flickr A friend recently asked me if I could help him understand the change for the better I’ve experienced in the last couple of years. At the same time, a reader here asked if I could elaborate on what I mean by taking charge or putting myself at the [...]

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Tags: assumptions, belief, change, depression, hope, medication, mindset, Recovery, self-esteem, therapy
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Depressed: No Friends, No Life

Written by John on November 23rd, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by Ashley_Rose at Flickr 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 as I recalled an old film in which a man hires a private [...]

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Tags: assumptions, change, emotion, friends, isolation, judgment, life, men, projection
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Recovery, Well-Being and Purpose

Written by John on April 5th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by lepiaf.geo at Flickr It occurs to me that recovery is past, well-being is now and purpose is the future. Let me explain. Recently, I wrote about recovery as a concept I no longer wanted to apply to what I’ve been going through. The word carried a set of assumptions that kept [...]

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Tags: assumptions, healing, health, hope, illness, life, meaning, medication, men, mind, purpose, Recovery, treatment, Viktor Frankl, well-being, will
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