Posts Tagged ‘detachment’

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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The Problem of Now in Recovery from Depression

Written by John on June 8th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by monkeytime at Flickr For a long time, I found it hard to relate to the idea of living in the present moment as a method of recovery from depression. The present never seemed all that attractive when I felt smothered by its darkness. That’s the way it had been in the [...]

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Tags: acceptance, awareness, consciousness, detachment, healing, identity, Recovery
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Growing Up with Fear and Depression

Written by John on May 7th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by D Sharon Pruitt at Flickr I’ve always wondered why the stories of veterans with PTSD, like those I’ve been reading for the recent posts here and at Health Central, have always resonated so deeply. I have nothing close to the unimaginable violence of war in my experience, or any of the [...]

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Tags: anxiety, childhood, depression, detachment, family, Fear, rage, violence
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Writing, Creativity and Healing – 2

Written by John on June 9th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by cmykcellist at Flickr Thanks again to isabella at moritherapy and her post about Mental Health Camp, I’ve been reading Louise DeSalvo’s Writing as a Way of Healing. She discusses at length not only the healing power of the writing process but also the need for a writer to care for the [...]

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Tags: Anthony Storr, creativity, detachment, fulfillment, healing, life, Louise DeSalvo, meditation, mind, mood, personality, practice, reality, spirituality, Writing, yoga
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Surviving at Work – 1: Recognizing the Symptoms

Written by John on September 22nd, 2007
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There are days that begin in difficult moods, and I start writing down what I’m going through to see if I can shake myself loose. Here’s what I wrote one morning last week. ……. I keep sinking away into a deep pool of stillness. Looking outside this morning, I see that the season’s first rain [...]

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Tags: detachment, focus, recognition, wandering, work
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