Posts Tagged ‘fighting’

Looking Out for Life

Written by John on October 28th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by macropoulos at Flickr When I was growing up, no one ever talked about depression. I didn’t know what it was, and the moods I went through didn’t get much reaction from my parents. Yet I spent a lot of time isolating myself, not feeling like playing with my friends or going [...]

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Tags: anxiety, brother, childhood, family, father, Fear, fighting, home, hurt, mood, mother
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Family Fury in a Small Space

Written by John on June 6th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by _marmota at Flickr This is a story I had to get out of my head onto paper purely for healing. It’s still hard, though, and I may not be getting it right – best I can do for now. A name has been changed, but otherwise this is the way I [...]

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Tags: brother, family, father, Fear, fighting, home, mother, rage, sound, violence, voice, words
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Fighting Depression: Why Get Well?

Written by John on October 29th, 2007
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Photo Credit: Jane M. Sawyer and MorgueFile Recently, I’ve started asking myself a basic question: Why get well? What do I really want in fighting depression? After all, if I’m working on recovery, I ought to be able to see what I’m aiming for. I thought for a long time that what I wanted was [...]

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Tags: depression, discovery, fighting, happiness, Recovery, self
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