In response to a recent post, Clinically Clueless commented that, for her, recovery was a process, not a destination. She needed to keep aware of it, like those recovering from addiction, in order to catch the signs of relapse. I’ve thought of recovery in a similar way, certainly not a state you arrive at and […]
Archives for July 2010
Meditation and Treatment by Tweet
Some Rights Reserved by dicktay2000 at Flickr When deeply depressed, it’s not the fear of failure I carry but the fear that success is getting too close. When I’m living in the timeless Now, what happens to hope, to a future, to recovery? I think I’ll want them back if I land again in the […]
Fantasies of a Perfect Future and Emotional Abuse
I have a post on emotional abuse at Health Central in which I compared the behavior of a depressed man who acts abusively with that of a true emotional abuser. It occurred to me after writing the post that fantasies of a perfect future are important for both. As I’ve written in the Longing to […]