Posts Tagged ‘connection’

No Energy to Start Recovery? Try a Little Light and Color.

Written by John on August 12th, 2010
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Some rights reserved by Nicola since 1972 The hardest thing about recovery can be the first step. It’s an alluring thought to be done with depression, but recovery can seem as overwhelming as the illness you’re trying to end. Since you may not have any energy at all, how can you begin to follow all [...]

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Tags: color, connection, depression, energy, light, Recovery
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Is It Loneliness or Is It Depression?

Written by John on April 28th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by Alyssa L. Miller at Flickr 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 [...]

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Tags: community, connection, depression, friends, intimacy, isolation, loneliness, marriage, partner, sadness, social connection, spouse, trust
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Creativity and Depression – 3

Written by John on February 10th, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by DerrickT at Flickr 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 [...]

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Tags: connection, creativity, culture, depression, disconnection, emotions, imagination, Jane Chin, life, PeterKramer, Philip Dawdy, Siroj Sorajjakool, Tim Bugansky
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