Posts Tagged ‘connection’

Is It Loneliness or Is It Depression?

Written by john on April 28th, 2009
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It may seem strange to pose this question: is it loneliness or is it depression? After all, many people feel loneliness at the loss or weakening of close relationships because of depression, and most of us who’ve lived with the condition over a lifetime experience those broken [...]

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Creativity and Depression – 3

Written by john on February 10th, 2008
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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 recreating [...]

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