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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

Forgiveness & Recovery from Depression

by John Folk-Williams 17 Comments

Recently, Melinda wrote a post about the role of forgiveness in her recovery and the difficulty she has had in forgiving her unrepentant father for abusing her in childhood. Reading this made me aware that I wasn’t very clear in my own mind about the meaning of forgiveness. It is always mentioned as an obligatory […]

Filed Under: Children and Depression, Self-Help, Spirituality Tagged With: blame, change, childhood, depression, forgiveness, soul, victim, violence

Real’s Men and Depression

by John Folk-Williams 9 Comments

The other day I looked back at a couple of posts by Therese Borchard at Beyond Blue about the behaviors that distinguish men and women in their responses to depression. She quoted two different studies in posts she published about a year apart, and that’s how long I’ve been mulling over writing about this subject. […]

Filed Under: Children and Depression, Depression Causes, Men and Depression Tagged With: childhood, depression, men, mother, self, trauma

Guilt, Grief and Regeneration

by John Folk-Williams 17 Comments

A breakthrough to healing can come at the most unexpected time. The other night I was trying to divert myself by watching a mystery episode from an old British series. Instead of taking my mind off things, this story pushed me into a past history I had long kept at a safe distance. The film […]

Filed Under: Children and Depression, Men and Depression, Psychotherapy Tagged With: childhood, family, grief, life, loss, love, mind

Masks of Depression

by John Folk-Williams 8 Comments

Do you think it’s possible to be going through some phase of depression and have your emotions so locked away inside you that you don’t notice a thing? I’ve written about feeling anger and rage and never associating those feelings with depression, though they were tightly bound together. But here I’m thinking of an earlier […]

Filed Under: Children and Depression, Depression Symptoms, Men and Depression Tagged With: childhood, depression, family, judgment, men, mother, shame, social anxiety, women

Growing Up Blue – Is Mom Dead?

by John Folk-Williams 5 Comments

I have a family in my memory that can’t be quite the family I grew up with. Each of us is more intense than we probably were, as lived moments collapse backwards into a few vivid scenes. Who knows if what I recall is what happened? That doesn’t matter so much compared to the lifelong […]

Filed Under: Children and Depression Tagged With: childhood, depression, family, fear, memory, mother, violence

Connecting – 1: What Do You See?

by John Folk-Williams

A long time ago, I came home from work one day and found my five-year old son carefully studying a pile of metal debris he must have just lugged into our yard from a neighboring hillside lot. We lived on the edge of a small city in the foothills, and there were frequent illegal dumpings […]

Filed Under: Men and Depression, Mindfulness Tagged With: childhood, expectation, father, meaning

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