Posts Tagged ‘behavior’

What We Deserve from Life

Written by John on March 31st, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by Delphine Devos at Flickr What do I really deserve from life? That’s a question that comes up online a lot, even if it’s only implied. And the dismaying but common answer is often: not much. It always saddens me to read that, but it’s never surprising. Those of us who’ve lived [...]

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Tags: behavior, belief, Connecting, depression, intimacy, isolation, judgment, life, love, Recovery, self-defeating, self-esteem, worthy
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Why Depressed Men Leave – 2

Written by John on February 21st, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by nyki_m at Flickr Some of the comments on the last post in this series hit hard on two issues. First is the question of personal choice: is a man supposed to escape responsibility for destructive behavior by attributing everything to depression? The answer is no! Depression is never an excuse for [...]

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Tags: action, behavior, children, family, hurt, impact, leaving, love, men, partner, responsibility, wife
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Explanations – 1: Finding a Guide

Written by John on September 16th, 2007
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I’d like to think of the search for the causes and treatments of depression as the tracking down of a killer, a good yarn like the fascinating medical mystery stories The New Yorker publishes from time to time. But we’re a long way from the end of such a story, and those tales can only [...]

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Tags: behavior, culture, depression, disease, neurotransmitters, PeterKramer, prozac, self
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