Posts Tagged ‘symptoms’

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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Getting Ready to Recover

Written by John on August 8th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by flikr at Flickr In thinking about how I managed to rid myself of depression, I’ve realized the importance of getting ready to recover. This idea never occurred to me during many failed attempts to find a way out of the underworld of living. I had hoped there would be a quick, [...]

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Tags: depression, detachment, medication, meditation, Recovery, symptoms, treatment
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Recovery from Depression’s Words

Written by John on August 28th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by Boskizzi at Flickr The words went up like walls, and I stepped inside to stay. I paced around in that confinement and after a while got to know the enclosure well. I liked its stillness and the sense of limits and order. Around me I read the names for mental things [...]

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Tags: change, depression, diagnosis, dreams, neuroscience, Recovery, spirit, survival, symptoms
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The Recovery Tweets

Written by John on June 2nd, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by glenn_e_wilson at Flickr. People – sorry -tweeple have been finding all sorts of uses for Twitter – live tweets from conferences, on-the-spot reporting from cell phones, group collaboration and even a webinar in 10 tweets, not to mention serious micro-blogging. You can tweet tweeple with common interests by using this format [...]

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Tags: belief, conversion, depression, disappearing, feeling, future, laughter, life, medication, men, Recovery, shadow, symptoms, Twitter, words
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