Posts Tagged ‘recognition’

On Health Central: How One Man Fights Depression

Written by John on August 22nd, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by prudencebrown121 at Flickr My new post at Health Central talks about picking up on the early warning signs of depression. Since I tend to need a big picture to figure out what to do, I found it when forced by desperation to look closely at my own self-defeating behavior. That was [...]

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Tags: anger, depression, healing, men, recognition, self-defeating, shame, symptoms
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Isolation

Written by John on August 30th, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by Eddi 07 at Flickr Susan and Dano have presented in comments here two different ideas about isolation that I need to explore more deeply, with your help. This is hard for me to pin down alone. My mind wants to wander, to lose focus, to put itself to sleep because this [...]

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Tags: death, depression, feeling, isolation, recognition, siren, sleep, solitude, symptom, trap, ulysses
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Surviving at Work – 1: Recognizing the Symptoms

Written by John on September 22nd, 2007
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There are days that begin in difficult moods, and I start writing down what I’m going through to see if I can shake myself loose. Here’s what I wrote one morning last week. ……. I keep sinking away into a deep pool of stillness. Looking outside this morning, I see that the season’s first rain [...]

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Tags: detachment, focus, recognition, wandering, work
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