Storied Mind has changed a lot. Whether you’re new to the site or a long-time visitor, you might need some orientation. To begin with, the Recover Life from Depression site has been folded into this one. You can now find all the posts, comments and links from both sites in one place.
To make it easier to find what you’re looking for, we’ve added several permanent sections to the regular flow of posts on the blog. Each section features one of the major topics and the latest posts on each.
A Story of Depression and Recovery
While putting this new format together, I realized that the site is organized a little bit like a story. It’s a very long story about finding a way to live well with depression. There are four basic phases, and each has its own section on the site.
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Living Depressed: Becoming aware of depression and how it’s crippling your life
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Choices in Healing: Finding the most effective therapies and actively applying them in you life.
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Relationships: Trying to hold onto close relationships while working to get better.
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Living Well: Adapting to depression over the long-term and learning to live as well as possible
Core Posts
To help you get an overview of what Storied Mind covers, I’ve organized some of the key posts here under popular topics. These posts are a good starting place since they go to the core purpose of Storied Mind – to help you find your own way to deal with depression.
Recovery
Men & Depression
Marriage, Relationships & Depression
- The Longing to Leave – 2
- How to Work Together to Save Your Relationship from Depression
- Talking to Depression – 1
Work & Depression
- Depression at Work-3: Should You Change Your Job or Your Life?
- Work and Depression
- Work, Identity and Recovery – 1
Depression Symptoms
Depression & Children
Depression Treatments
I am just looking for some help. My husband of 11 years has just left me. We have two young boys. When we dated years ago, he would leave me/dump me, randomly, and come back months later, apologizing profusely and lusting over me. I never thought any of that could be depression. His father has been depressed since he was a young boy and just 2 months ago attempted suicide. It made my husband very sad, unwell, tearful. My husband would say things like “I’m not myself.” We bickered a lot that month and he then decided I was “not the one for him.” He is not willing to work on our marriage and says it’s over forever. There was nothing that horrible that warranted such a drastic move. I am just looking for support/guidance. I don’t think he has any idea that he may have depression. Do I mention it? Or do I let him go down this path alone? I want to help him. I want to be with him. But he is giving me nothing….no hope.
I been dating this guy for 3 months. We had fun times, he met my family over thd holidays, I met his one son. He was so inti me right away and said he loved me in a month planned the future with us. A month ago his Dr.owered his meds in which he told me he was on meds from a ex girlfriend of 9 yrs left and he was heartbroken with no closure or reason and don’t know where she is. Apparently she got hooked on Heroin and he dealt with it for the last 4 years. So during the holidays he can became distant. Now Dr. put him back on reg dosege to help him deal with issues from holidays and him packing up her stuff. From a yr ago. I have reached out to him since he explained the situation and called. I got one text back after he told his kids whats going on and told them Im giving him space to work through it. I’ve been so upset not knowing are we over or once his meds work again and he is back to loving self will he want to see me again or his he wanting to be left alone cause thinking of his ex and until he’s bettet. I don’t know what to do and can’t believe he is doing this to me after two years ago I went through a break-up I’m living with someone and dating for 6 years I feel he shouldn’t be doing this to me again but I know it’s not his fault