Posts Tagged ‘Buddhist’

Meditating through Depression

Written by john on November 6th, 2008
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These are journal excerpts about my fitful beginning work with meditation as a guide through depression.

After a day of feeling the chaos of panic, immobilized at work, I went to see JL, first therapist in years. This guy is real. He wasted no time, quickly running through some patterns [...]

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Support or Defeat?

Written by john on October 21st, 2007
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One of the hardest admissions I have had to make about the effect of depression was to say bluntly to myself, after years of denial, that my performance in my profession had steadily deteriorated under the impact of this illness. The truth had been obvious for some time to colleagues depending on me to be [...]

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