Posts Tagged ‘success’

Meditation and Treatment by Tweet

Written by John on July 12th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by dicktay2000 at Flickr When deeply depressed, it’s not the fear of failure I carry but the fear that success is getting too close. When I’m living in the timeless Now, what happens to hope, to a future, to recovery? I think I’ll want them back if I land again in the [...]

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Tags: acceptance, Fear, feeling, meditation, Recovery, success, treatment
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Depression, Praise & Undoing Success

Written by John on May 27th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by notsogoodphotography at Flickr On my good days, praise is exciting, gratifying to hear. On my bad days, until recently, praise launched the automated program called Undoing Success. It started with a weight of doom sinking into the center of my chest. There followed in quick succession an attack of intense anxiety [...]

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Tags: anxiety, depression, failure, Fear, hope, humor, praise, reward, self-esteem, strategy, success, undoing success, voice
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Depressed for Success

Written by John on November 18th, 2007
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Photo Credit: JesterArts – Stockxpert I’ve been a bit overwhelmed reading the many moving responses to my post dealing with depression at work, Support or Defeat?, that have appeared on Beyond Blue and Furious Seasons. The comments describe many tortured work histories, some with good outcomes, others with no end in sight to an anguished [...]

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Tags: depression, disability, healing, humor, SinCity, success, TheBigLebowski, WoodyAllen, work
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