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How Does Depression Affect Your Children?

by John Folk-Williams 22 Comments

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A reader asked me recently about how his depression might affect his children. He knew he had put his wife through hell and didn’t want to have the same thing happen to their kids. He was even wondering if there were parents who had thought about not getting married and not having children because of […]

Filed Under: Children and Depression Tagged With: children, family, father, mother

How Lasting is the Impact of Emotional Abuse in Childhood?

by John Folk-Williams 26 Comments

I’ve worked for a long time on rebuilding self-esteem, though I’ve never been sure whether the lack of it contributed to depression or the depression killed off the self-esteem. It hardly matters. When I was a kid, that confident, robust me, sure of who he was, feeling like a whole person, apparently never made it […]

Filed Under: Children and Depression, Depression Causes, Self-Esteem Tagged With: childhood, depression, family, psychological abuse, trauma

Finding Safe Haven from Childhood Fear

by John Folk-Williams 29 Comments

Finding safe haven from childhood fear

A psychiatrist friend once summarized a basic tendency he saw in children from their earliest years. He said that a child could grow up either trusting the people and world he lived in or feeling insecure and uncertain about them. A child would either feel safe or unsafe, and a lot depended on this basic […]

Filed Under: Children and Depression Tagged With: childhood, family, fear, safety, trust

Trying to Be Selective about Self-Acceptance

by John Folk-Williams 5 Comments

Broken Glass Window

The boy took careful aim with his lever-action BB gun and fired off the first shot. The tiny pellet pierced one of the windows of the tall tree-house, and jagged cracks radiated from the pinhole it made. The house was nestled securely in the giant crook of an oak tree that stood right next to […]

Filed Under: Children and Depression, Psychotherapy Tagged With: acceptance, Anger, attachment, childhood, compassion, self

The Costly Mercy of Lost Feelings

by John Folk-Williams 5 Comments

Boy standing by a frozen river

I’ve been working on a new ebook about recovery and came across this early post on lost feelings. It resonated with me so I thought I would post it again in this revised version. A breakthrough to healing can come at the most unexpected time. The other night I was trying to divert myself by […]

Filed Under: Children and Depression, Healing Tagged With: childhood, emotion, family, grief, guilt, relationships

Growing Up with Fear and Depression

by John Folk-Williams 10 Comments

I’ve always wondered why the stories of veterans with PTSD, like those I’ve been reading for the recent posts here and at Health Central, have resonated so deeply. I have nothing close to the unimaginable violence of war in my experience, or any of the other overwhelming traumas associated with PTSD. The aftereffects, though, feel […]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Children and Depression Tagged With: childhood, depression, detachment, family, fear, rage, violence

Looking Out for Life

by John Folk-Williams 6 Comments

Some Rights Reserved by macropoulos at Flickr When I was growing up, no one ever talked about depression. I didn’t know what it was, and the moods I went through didn’t get much reaction from my parents. Yet I spent a lot of time isolating myself, not feeling like playing with my friends or going […]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Children and Depression Tagged With: childhood, family, father, fear, home, mood, mother

Family Fury in a Small Space

by John Folk-Williams 5 Comments

This is a story I had to get out of my head onto paper purely for healing. It’s still hard, though, and I may not be getting it right – best I can do for now. A name has been changed, but otherwise this is the way I can remember it. This seemed to happen […]

Filed Under: Anger, Children and Depression Tagged With: family, father, fear, home, mother, rage, violence

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