Posts Tagged ‘dream’

Brief Dreams of Recovery – 1

Written by john on October 16th, 2009
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Dreams are what they are, and I won’t try to explain them in rational or symbolic terms. The feeling of this one was all good. It came as recovery was at last getting to be the real thing.
After a long and baffling night I was running back to [...]

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Dreams, Depression & Spirituality – 2

Written by john on March 9th, 2008
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Insightful comments by Stephany and Jane are helping me get to another stage in dealing with depression. In a previous post I started wondering if there might be a very different way of imagining and experiencing this illness. Could there be a way of adapting that started with [...]

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A Mother, Depression and Grief

Written by john on January 22nd, 2008
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When my mother died, I didn’t know what I felt. Throughout my life, I had been struggling to shed the influence of her searing and shaming words, her anger, at times rage, above all, her depression during my childhood. How many of us spend adult years still trying [...]

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The Longing to be Close – 1

Written by john on December 29th, 2007
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In reading over the many responses to The Longing to Leave series, I realize those stories only get at part of the picture. Like many in the midst of depression, I wanted to blame my marriage for what I was going through and fantasized about leaving. But at the core of that [...]

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The Longing to Leave – 3

Written by john on November 24th, 2007
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Reading the comments that appeared at Beyond Blue about The Longing to Leave-2 has been a continuing inspiration. I realize how different everyone’s experience is about the impact of depression on marriage, and how desperately hard everyone works to reach what is for them the right answer about staying married or not. For some, [...]

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