Some Rights Reserved by Auntie K at Flickr So that was Christmas, or whatever you celebrate, … and what have you done? … It happens every December, the moods of so many darken in the midst of the season of joy, and bloggers write up their tip lists about how to survive the holidays. Depression […]
Archives for December 2010
Top Depression Blog – 2010
I’m really pleased to report that Storied Mind has been honored for the second time by PsychCentral as one of the top ten depression blogs of the year. It’s especially meaningful to me because PsychCentral is the best site on the internet devoted entirely to mental health information for the public. Their Depression Guide is […]
Talking to Save Relationships and Talking to Walls
Image by nasrulekram I’ve written a pair of posts at Health Central about trying to explain what depression is like to family and close friends. The first one describes opening up in a way that’s helped me dispel the assumptions others been making about why I’ve changed so much. The second looks at what I […]
Surprised by Joy in the Lunch Room
Depersonalized, Derealized, Dissociative and Disappearing
I had a comment on a recent post at Health Central that described an experience the writer called dissociative. During a therapy session she had become so remote that she couldn’t focus on the discussion or even remember in mid-sentence what she’d been saying. She wasn’t fully present and couldn’t bring herself to come back […]
