Posts Tagged ‘trust’

Is It Loneliness or Is It Depression?

Written by john on April 28th, 2009
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It may seem strange to pose this question: is it loneliness or is it depression? After all, many people feel loneliness at the loss or weakening of close relationships because of depression, and most of us who’ve lived with the condition over a lifetime experience those broken [...]

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Carl Rogers: The Flow of Becoming a Person

Written by john on April 18th, 2009
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Carl Rogers summarized what he had learned about his own process of becoming a person in an essay entitled “This is Me,” found in On Becoming a Person. This discussion helps illuminate the beliefs he gained from experience about effective change and acceptance of one’s self.
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Hope, Love, Depression and House Repair

Written by john on December 21st, 2007
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A four-word comment from Stephany has set my mind going. “Hope is not love.” she writes in reference to my last post on the difficulty of sustaining a marriage in the midst of major depression. At the end of that brief story I used a house-building image in talking about hope, [...]

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Caution: Raging Man in Residence

Written by john on December 16th, 2007
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An active and aggressive side of depression, especially painful to recall, is the rage that used to blast through me at my wife and three boys. There are few things to equal the power for healing of the connection and love of your own family, and it’s a sign of the [...]

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