Some Rights Reserved by pictoscribe at Flickr I’m finding that healing the effects of depression has a lot to do with understanding the need for roots and what the experience of being uprooted is all about. The metaphor of roots growing into a nourishing soil kept me focused for a long time on just one […]
Archives for 2009
Aging Out of Depression
Some Rights Reserved by MVI at Flickr I’ve published a post over at Health Central about recovering from depression and the effect that’s had on my sense of time and the process of aging. The opening is below with a link to the full post. Merely Me’s beautiful post on the losses of growing old […]
Healing & the Power of Place
Some Rights Reserved by frapestaartje at Flickr In a couple of excellent posts, Susan at the Wellness Writer has written about ecotherapy, a form of treatment that seeks to restore the lost connections with the natural world that are essential to health. (She cites a new book of, the same name as a good introduction.) […]
Images of the Healing Garden
June Garden Early Morning © All rights reserved by Wild Rubies at Flickr The gardens my wife has created are so important to my own healing that I’ll keep posting images here from time to time. We’re planning to start a garden blog later this year, and these can also serve as a hint of […]
What’s in a (DSM Diagnostic) Name?
When I started getting a diagnosis of “depression” years ago, I found myself assuming that this was the name for a permanent condition rather than one dimension in the changing nature of an unfolding life. Later, the term became more formalized as “major depressive disorder recurrent non-psychotic” under the DSM-IV classification system. In a way, […]
DSM-V: Medicalizing the Human Condition?
Some Rights Reserved by pedrosimoes7 at Flickr The ongoing revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has provoked prominent psychiatrists to declare that the next version (DSM-V) is in danger of medicalizing normality. Since “normality” covers quite a few people who don’t think of themselves as mentally disordered, I thought it would […]