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Depression Is a Free Fall in Slow Motion

by John Folk-Williams 14 Comments

Once my kids pulled me with them up to a water slide. I don’t like sliding through winding tubes and hadn’t done it before. But I couldn’t back out of it once I was standing in a dense line at the top of a 50-foot high platform. Nowhere to go but down. So off I […]

Filed Under: Depression Symptoms, Isolation Tagged With: depression, survival, trust

Depressed: When Control Is Out of Control

by John Folk-Williams 14 Comments

Depression when control is out of control

Why I try to understand depression, I find too few words with too many meanings. This isn’t quibbling over semantics. It’s about what you feel when living with depression and what you feel when you can finally live without it. It’s about the experience behind the words. Take the word, control. To control and to […]

Filed Under: Anger, Depression Symptoms, Isolation Tagged With: Anger, awareness, fear

How Depression Spreads

by John Folk-Williams 12 Comments

Separated man and woman watching sunset

Depression spreads through the closest relationships almost like a communicable disease. I learned the hard way that the illness didn’t happen to me alone. It happened to my children, my friends, and most of all to my wife. The pull of depression took me away from her and everyone else. I often felt I was […]

Filed Under: Depressed Partners, Isolation Tagged With: family, feelings, intimacy, marriage, partner, relationships

Depression Is a Creative Force in Human Evolution?

by John Folk-Williams 21 Comments

Some Rights Reserved by gutter at Flickr. What is it about depression that draws people to search for the benefits it brings to its lucky victims? Since I’ve been writing this blog, many writers have had great success with books and articles describing its positive role in life – giving people a creative edge, helping […]

Filed Under: Depression Causes, Isolation Tagged With: depression, psychiatry, treatment

Depressed: No Friends, No Life

by John Folk-Williams 1,060 Comments

Lately, I’ve come across a number of questions online by plainly anguished people, asking: Why do I have no friends, no life? The first time I saw one this blunt, I reacted almost defensively, laughing as I recalled an old film in which a man hires a private detective to find out why he has […]

Filed Under: Isolation, Reconnecting Tagged With: change, emotion, judgment, life, men, projection

Is It Loneliness or Is It Depression?

by John Folk-Williams 88 Comments

It may seem strange to pose this question: is it loneliness or is it depression? After all, many people feel loneliness at the loss or weakening of close relationships because of depression, and most of us who’ve lived with the condition over a lifetime experience those broken connections as some of its worst effects. On […]

Filed Under: Depression Causes, Isolation, Reconnecting, Recovery Tagged With: connecting, depression, intimacy, marriage, partner, trust

What We Deserve from Life

by John Folk-Williams 28 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Isolation, Self-Esteem Tagged With: belief, connecting, depression, intimacy, judgment, life, love

Why Depressed Men Leave – 3

by John Folk-Williams 130 Comments

I’ve written a lot about the form of depression in which men look outside themselves to find the cause for an inner pain that simply can’t be faced. They may feel anger, rage, a longing to act out fantasies, or a compulsion to blame and abuse those closest to them. That side of depression is […]

Filed Under: Depressed Partners, Isolation, Men and Depression, Reconnecting Tagged With: blame, emotion, emotional abuse, family, leaving, withdrawal, work

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