Posts Tagged ‘judgment’

Stressing Life by the Rules

Written by John on February 12th, 2010
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Recovery from depression meant a lot of change in the way I lived, and cutting out the stress of a tension-filled job was at the top of the list. Once I had ended that life of constant pressure, I could feel the relief at the start of each day. A freedom and energy filled me, [...]

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Tags: breath, judgment, life, meditation, obsession, perfection, rules, self-esteem, stress, tension, time
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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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What We Deserve from Life

Written by John on March 31st, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by Delphine Devos at Flickr What do I really deserve from life? That’s a question that comes up online a lot, even if it’s only implied. And the dismaying but common answer is often: not much. It always saddens me to read that, but it’s never surprising. Those of us who’ve lived [...]

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Tags: behavior, belief, Connecting, depression, intimacy, isolation, judgment, life, love, Recovery, self-defeating, self-esteem, worthy
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Masks of Depression

Written by John on July 2nd, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by AngelsWings at Flickr Do you think it’s possible to be going through some phase of depression and have your emotions so locked away inside you that you don’t notice a thing? I’ve written about feeling anger and rage and never associating those feelings with depression, though they were tightly bound together. [...]

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Tags: childhood, depression, energy, family, judgment, mask, men, mother, shame, social anxiety, teenage, women
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