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Re-Reading the Story of Depression’s Meaning

by John Folk-Williams 20 Comments

Stories of depression's meaning

There are no more beautiful and moving stories of healing than those told by Rachel Naomi Remen. Kitchen Table Wisdom is one of those books I come back to again and again. Each of its brief stories renders a moment of discovery that reveals a life’s meaning to someone lost in pain or rigid routine. […]

Filed Under: Purpose, Reconnecting Tagged With: depression, life, meaning, Rachel Naomi Remen, self, survival, Viktor Frankl

Why Talking to Myself Makes Sense

by John Folk-Williams 10 Comments

portrait magical thinking

I’ve tried to stop talking to myself, but I haven’t had much luck. I’m referring to the silent internal conversation that accompanies almost every waking moment when my attention is left on its own. I’ve often wondered why the talking has to keep going. Listening with Awareness As part of dealing with depression, I’ve worked […]

Filed Under: Mindfulness, Reconnecting Tagged With: awareness, mind, self, thinking, well-being

Depression Therapy: Lonely Talk in a Crowded Room

by John Folk-Williams 13 Comments

Depression Therapy - Lonely Talk in a Crowded Room

Therapy for depression usually meant talking about the world I was seeing, the thoughts I had, the pain I felt, the judgments about me I projected onto others – all me, all the time. Once, I was talking to a therapist in that way when I sensed a crowd of people filling the room. The […]

Filed Under: Reconnecting, Recovery Tagged With: connecting, depression, fear, feelings

Revisiting: Recovery and Creative Experience

by John Folk-Williams 4 Comments

All that I am, all that life has made me, every past experience that I have had – woven into the tissue of my life – I must give to … new experience. … [The] past … has indeed not been useless, but its use is not in guiding present conduct by past situations. We […]

Filed Under: Creativity, Reconnecting, Recovery Tagged With: change, life

Depression in a Red Suit (v. 2.0): On the Holidays Past and Future

by John Folk-Williams 9 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Reconnecting Tagged With: depression, family, hope

Talking to Save Relationships and Talking to Walls

by John Folk-Williams 15 Comments

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 […]

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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

Healing & the Power of Place

by John Folk-Williams 6 Comments

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.) […]

Filed Under: Reconnecting, Recovery Tagged With: awareness, depression, ecotherapy, life, loss, pattern, wellness

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