Posts Tagged ‘depression’

Meditation and a Prayer for Healing

Written by John on August 25th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by nds808v at Flickr This is an edited and shortened version of a post on meditation I did some time ago. The prayer at the end remains important to me, so I thought I’d put it up again. I hope it makes some sense to you. Here are a few journal excerpts [...]

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Tags: depression, emotion, Fear, meditation, peace, prayer
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On Health Central: How One Man Fights Depression

Written by John on August 22nd, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by prudencebrown121 at Flickr My new post at Health Central talks about picking up on the early warning signs of depression. Since I tend to need a big picture to figure out what to do, I found it when forced by desperation to look closely at my own self-defeating behavior. That was [...]

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Tags: anger, depression, healing, men, recognition, self-defeating, shame, symptoms
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What Do You See in the Mirror When You’re Depressed?

Written by John on August 18th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by Atiqah Aekman W. at Flickr Here’s a post I wrote at Health Central about a year ago. There are a couple of China Beach stories I keep coming back to, and I hope this one is as helpful to you as it has been to me. Quite a while back, there [...]

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Tags: acceptance, belief, depression, self-esteem, shame, therapy
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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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Getting Ready to Recover

Written by John on August 8th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by flikr at Flickr In thinking about how I managed to rid myself of depression, I’ve realized the importance of getting ready to recover. This idea never occurred to me during many failed attempts to find a way out of the underworld of living. I had hoped there would be a quick, [...]

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Tags: depression, detachment, medication, meditation, Recovery, symptoms, treatment
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Posts on Self-Esteem at Health Central

Written by John on August 4th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by paul (dex) at Flickr Here are two posts about self-esteem (here and here) I’ve recently published at Health Central. “Loss of self-esteem” has become the clinical term for one of depression’s key symptoms, but it doesn’t convey much about living with the contempt I used to feel for myself, day in, [...]

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Tags: awareness, cognitive therapy, depression, Recovery, self-esteem
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