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Getting to Work When Depressed

by John Folk-Williams 68 Comments

getting to work when depressed

Simply getting to work when you’re depressed can feel like an impossible task. Dealing with people in the workplace and doing the most basic parts of the job seem to take more energy than you have. The routine becomes hard labor, and the stress and depression feed off each other. Over the past year, several […]

Filed Under: Depression at Work Tagged With: avoidance, disability, family, self-worth, stress, work

The Friends of Depression at Work

by John Folk-Williams 7 Comments

Gears Working

(Here’s an edited journal entry from early days of this blog when I was trying to survive depression at work.) I keep looking for a ray of humor in the ongoing torture of trying to work when depressed. This has not been easy. In fact, I’ve been falling into dark memory holes and getting a […]

Filed Under: Depression at Work Tagged With: disability, obsessive thinking, success, work

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