Posts Tagged ‘medication’

The Recovery Tweets

Written by john on June 2nd, 2009
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People – sorry -tweeple have been finding all sorts of uses for Twitter – live tweets from conferences, on-the-spot reporting from cell phones, group collaboration and even a webinar in 10 tweets, not to mention serious micro-blogging. You can tweet tweeple with common interests by using this format – [...]

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Recovery, Well-Being and Purpose

Written by john on April 5th, 2009
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It occurs to me that recovery is past, well-being is now and purpose is the future. Let me explain.
Recently, I wrote about recovery as a concept I no longer wanted to apply to what I’ve been going through. The word carried a set of assumptions that kept me within [...]

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Feeling Fine on Prozac

Written by john on March 1st, 2009
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Medication is a hot subject on the internet, so I need to say up front that I’m not opposed to the use of medications to treat long-term depression. I have a live-and-let-live attitude about treatment. Finding anything that works for each person is the key, with or without drugs [...]

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Ceremonies of Magic, Imagination and Play

Written by john on November 24th, 2008
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Merely Me wrote a wonderful post on the importance of bringing play back into everyday life. It is the forgotten tonic among adults in general and depressed adults in particular. She paints a vivid scene of a group therapy session where she coaxed recovering addicts [...]

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How One Man Fights Depression – 2

Written by john on January 27th, 2008
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The storm passed. The huge trees fell beside our house. My angry, blaming depression spent itself in a fury of hard work cutting up the fallen timber, hauling branches into heaps, lifting and shoving back in place every wind-strewn planter and potted tree that had rolled away under the [...]

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