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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

The Costly Mercy of Lost Feelings

by John Folk-Williams 5 Comments

Boy standing by a frozen river

I’ve been working on a new ebook about recovery and came across this early post on lost feelings. It resonated with me so I thought I would post it again in this revised version. A breakthrough to healing can come at the most unexpected time. The other night I was trying to divert myself by […]

Filed Under: Children and Depression, Healing Tagged With: childhood, emotion, family, grief, guilt, relationships

10th Anniversary Depression Ebook Sale

by John Folk-Williams 5 Comments

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Ten years have passed since I started writing Storied Mind, and I’d like to celebrate by offering a depression ebook sale. Starting on Saturday, March 25th, both Surviving Depression Together and A Mind for Life will be selling for $2.99 each. As you probably know, I stopped adding new material to Storied Mind a couple […]

Filed Under: Self-Help Tagged With: depression, ebooks, empowerment, relationships

Suicide and Depression

by John Folk-Williams 9 Comments

Infinity in a sunny landscape

Even though suicide is the last thing I want to write or even think about, trying to understand its causes has been important in my recovery for two big reasons. One is learning about the differences between suicidal thinking, which many people with depression have, and the far less common factors that lead to actual […]

Filed Under: Reslience Tagged With: belief, burdensome, relationships, self-injury, suicide

Couples Therapy and Relationships: Hedy Schleifer

by John Folk-Williams 1 Comment

In the world of couples therapy, there seem to be a few people who are known world-wide as masters of the trade. Hedy Schleifer is one of them. You may not have heard of her before, since she hasn’t written any books about her approach. I was introduced to her work through a video interview […]

Filed Under: Psychotherapy, Relationship Tagged With: couples therapy, intimacy, marriage, relationships

My Top 5 Movies on Depression

by John Folk-Williams 29 Comments

Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath

Movies about the realities of depression aren’t usually popular or profitable. As a result, there aren’t many that probe the condition deeply and honestly. The five films in this post are the best I’ve seen for the realism and dramatic power of their stories and the excellence of acting and production. There are many more […]

Filed Under: Depression Symptoms, Resource Tagged With: depression, movies, relationships, suicide

Is Your Partner’s Depression Changing You?

by John Folk-Williams 136 Comments

healing through the emotional brain

Over and over, I find stories online about the transformation of a loving partner, most often a man, into a depressed stranger. I know what that’s about because I have been that stranger. I went through a period of withdrawing emotionally from my wife and blaming her and just about everything else for my problems. […]

Filed Under: Psychotherapy, Relationship Tagged With: partner, relationships

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