What do I really deserve from life? That’s a question that comes up online a lot, even if it’s only implied. And the dismaying but common answer is often: not much. It always saddens me to read that, but it’s never surprising. Those of us who’ve lived with depression for a while know that the […]
Archives for March 2009
Early Steps Toward Recovery
Lynn left a comment on Why Depressed Men Leave that ended with a question I’ve been thinking about all week. She summarized the wrenching story about her bipolar husband and his blaming her for everything that was wrong with him. Then she asked me how I gained the insight that my blaming and raging behavior […]
Recovery, Purpose and Nests
There is a link, though it’s a stretch, between recovery and the building of nests that occurs to me on this fine spring day, and I’ll get there in a moment. Right now, life is blossoming out everywhere. The stunning medleys of the mockingbirds are in the air, and there’s much courting behavior among all […]
Work, Identity and Recovery – 1
Understanding what work means for my sense of personal identity, for a basic acceptance of who I am, has been a central issue in making progress in recovery over this past year. Yet it seems strange that both my identity and feelings of self-worth should so depend on what I do. I spent a long […]
The Depression Tweets
Some Rights Reserved by Michal Orel at Flickr The Twitter mini-posts of 140 characters may not seem very promising, but I’ve been able to pull quite a bit from the onrush of mundane details: interesting conversation, links to helpful sites, answers to questions on any subject, new ideas for projects, new contacts and whatever else […]
More or Less, 25 Facts
Some Rights Reserved by woodleywonderworks at Flickr Quite some time ago, Immi tagged me on Facebook with the 100-facts-about-me meme. Apologies for not following through, but I doubt I can count that high, let alone think of that many facts, at least true ones. But I’ll give it a try, at least a partial try. […]
Feeling Fine on Prozac
Medication is a hot subject on the internet, so I need to say up front that I’m not opposed to the use of medications to treat long-term depression. I have a live-and-let-live attitude about treatment. Finding anything that works for each person is the key, with or without drugs or any of the many other […]
