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Why Writing Can Help Heal Depression – 1

by John Folk-Williams 21 Comments

writing helps heal depression

The subtitle of Storied Mind used to be Writing to Recover Life from Depression, and I’ve often wondered why it is specifically that writing can help heal depression, especially when so many other approaches to treatment have failed me. When I was just starting this blog, I wrote about the fear of writing or even […]

Filed Under: Recovery, Writing Tagged With: depression, feelings, trauma

Depersonalized, Derealized, Dissociative and Disappearing

by John Folk-Williams 22 Comments

dissociative disappearing

I had a comment on a post at Health Central that described an experience the writer called dissociative. During a therapy session she had become so remote that she couldn’t focus on the discussion or even remember in mid-sentence what she’d been saying. She wasn’t fully present and couldn’t bring herself to come back into […]

Filed Under: Depression Symptoms Tagged With: connection, dissociation, family, feelings, intimacy

Depressed Men Behaving Badly Can Stop

by John Folk-Williams 40 Comments

Frowning Man in Dark Glasses

There’s a story on this site that never, unfortunately, gets old. It’s about depressed men breaking up their relationships as a misguided way to get well and find fulfillment. The psychotherapist, David Wexler, has good ideas about how men can change the experience of their closest relationships without leaving. He looks at the problems of […]

Filed Under: Men and Depression Tagged With: authenticity, feelings, marriage, men, partner

Reconnecting Depressed Partners Despite Fear and Shame

by John Folk-Williams 40 Comments

Tense Couple Talking

Men and women have the same need and longing to connect with each other, but they also have different ways of reacting to stress that can drive them apart. That makes reconnecting depressed partners difficult. Psychotherapist Patricia Love believes that these instinctive coping strategies can trigger the fear and shame that isolate partners from each […]

Filed Under: Depressed Partners Tagged With: connection, fear, feelings, men, shame, women

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

The Loss of Feeling in Depressed Partners

by John Folk-Williams 243 Comments

Disreality Illusion

Living with depressed partners can mean living without the feelings of love that are at the heart of every relationship. What is it about depression that could turn intimate companions into cold and blaming strangers? Readers ask about this over and over as their partners start blaming them for their own unhappiness and want out […]

Filed Under: Depressed Partners Tagged With: feelings, loss, marriage, partner

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

A Wheel of Emotions

by John Folk-Williams 11 Comments

Wheel of emotions

  There are many models for capturing the range of human emotion, but one that caught my eye was this highly original classification captured in the wheel of emotions. This image is the work of Robert Plutchik, a psychologist who saw emotions, as Darwin did in his groundbreaking The Expression of the Emotions in Man […]

Filed Under: Depression Causes Tagged With: emotion, evolutionary psychology, feelings, psychology, Robert Plutchik

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