Posts Tagged ‘failure’

Depression, Praise & Undoing Success

Written by john on May 27th, 2009
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On my good days, praise is exciting, gratifying to hear. On my bad days, until recently, praise launched the automated program called Undoing Success. It started with a weight of doom sinking into the center of my chest. There followed in quick succession an attack of intense [...]

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Working Depressed: Changing Careers

Written by john on April 19th, 2008
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I’ve just gone through a six weeks experiment to see if a moderate dose of lithium would strengthen an antidepressant that’s been fading in effectiveness. No such luck. Instead, I went through a tortured sequence of headaches, dizziness, muscular wobbliness, loss of balance, tremors and thick mental fog that [...]

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Fighting Back – 1: Changing Belief about Depression

Written by john on August 20th, 2007
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Depression is a strange thing. No one seems able to explain exactly what it is, yet there is no doubting the reality of its pain. I've had it with me since boyhood, though at that time, I was years away from even hearing the term, let alone getting treatment.  [...]

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