Posts Tagged ‘mother’

Masks of Depression

Written by john on July 2nd, 2008
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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. But [...]

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Growing Up Blue – Is Mom Dead?

Written by john on June 11th, 2008
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I have a family in my memory that can’t be quite the family I grew up with. Each of us is more intense than we probably were, as lived moments collapse backwards into a few vivid scenes. Who knows if what I recall is what happened? That [...]

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A Mother, Depression and Grief

Written by john on January 22nd, 2008
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When my mother died, I didn’t know what I felt. Throughout my life, I had been struggling to shed the influence of her searing and shaming words, her anger, at times rage, above all, her depression during my childhood. How many of us spend adult years still trying [...]

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