Posts Tagged ‘people’

The Risk of Change in Recovery

Written by John on April 22nd, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by Idol at Flickr The risk of being changed is one of the most frightening experiences we can face. — Carl Rogers: Breakdowns in Communication in On Becoming a Person Accepting the risk of change has been a big step in recovery: risks are hard to take because of the fear they [...]

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Tags: Carl Rogers, change, depression, experience, feelings, life, people, prison, projection, reality, risk
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Days of Anxiety – 1

Written by John on December 30th, 2008
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Some Right Reserved by Ctd_2005 at Flickr Anxiety is one of the fringe benefits of depression. The form of it that I find most acute is now called social anxiety, but as I mentioned in a previous post, I used to call it torture. When it’s upon me in full force, every encounter with people [...]

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Tags: depression, experience, intimacy, people, poem, social anxiety
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