Posts Tagged ‘support’

When Depressed, Do You Feel Ugly?

Written by john on September 10th, 2009
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I’ve published another post at Health Central. The opening is below with a link to the full post.
Quite a while back, there was a TV series about a group of nurses in the Vietnam War. It was called China Beach. In one episode of this powerful drama, a soldier [...]

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Talking to Depression – 2

Written by john on July 5th, 2009
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I’ve written an overview post in this series on Depression Central, and I hope you’ll have a look at that. Thanks.
Talking to a depressed partner can be more than frustrating. It can feel hopeless when you’re faced with a slammed door shutting you out completely or a furious attack [...]

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Recovery, Purpose and Nests

Written by john on March 22nd, 2009
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There is a link, though it’s a stretch, among recovery and the nests of birds that occurs to me on this fine spring day, and I’ll get there in a moment. Of course, life is blossoming out everywhere. The stunning medleys of the mockingbirds are in [...]

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Support or Defeat?

Written by john on October 21st, 2007
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One of the hardest admissions I have had to make about the effect of depression was to say bluntly to myself, after years of denial, that my performance in my profession had steadily deteriorated under the impact of this illness. The truth had been obvious for some time to colleagues depending on me to be [...]

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