Posts Tagged ‘friends’

Depressed: No Friends, No Life

Written by John on November 23rd, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by Ashley_Rose at Flickr Lately, I’ve come across a number of questions online by plainly anguished people, asking: Why do I have no friends, no life? The first time I saw one this blunt, I reacted almost defensively, laughing as I recalled an old film in which a man hires a private [...]

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Tags: assumptions, change, emotion, friends, isolation, judgment, life, men, projection
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Is It Loneliness or Is It Depression?

Written by John on April 28th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by Alyssa L. Miller at Flickr It may seem strange to pose this question: is it loneliness or is it depression? After all, many people feel loneliness at the loss or weakening of close relationships because of depression, and most of us who’ve lived with the condition over a lifetime experience those [...]

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Tags: community, connection, depression, friends, intimacy, isolation, loneliness, marriage, partner, sadness, social connection, spouse, trust
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Healing Waters in the Grand Canyon

Written by John on January 9th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by efleming on Flickr This is another of the first posts on this blog that I’ve revised. It describes an incident from many years ago, but the experience gave me an image of healing that has never left. I come back to it again and again whenever I need to push off [...]

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Tags: friends, grand canyon, healing, Phantom Creek, rage, spirit, stream, water
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Real’s Men and Depression

Written by John on October 4th, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by will hybrid at Flickr The other day I looked back at a couple of posts by Therese Borchard at Beyond Blue about the behaviors that distinguish men and women in their responses to depression. She quoted two different studies in posts she published about a year apart, and that’s how long [...]

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Tags: childhood, depression, disempowerment, friends, girls, men, mother, relationship, self, terrencereal, Therese Borchard, trauma
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