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Patterns of Recovery from Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

by John Folk-Williams 9 Comments

patterns of recovery

I started learning about patterns of recovery when my mother survived two heart attacks but died twice before her death. That’s the way she saw it. Her heart stopped both times, but she fought her way back. The second heart-stopping attack occurred during an operation for a different problem. She was 94. I only learned […]

Filed Under: Depression Treatments, Recovery Tagged With: depression, pattern, PTSD, trauma, treatment, trust

Depression Is a Free Fall in Slow Motion

by John Folk-Williams 14 Comments

Once my kids pulled me with them up to a water slide. I don’t like sliding through winding tubes and hadn’t done it before. But I couldn’t back out of it once I was standing in a dense line at the top of a 50-foot high platform. Nowhere to go but down. So off I […]

Filed Under: Depression Symptoms, Isolation Tagged With: depression, survival, trust

Finding Safe Haven from Childhood Fear

by John Folk-Williams 29 Comments

Finding safe haven from childhood fear

A psychiatrist friend once summarized a basic tendency he saw in children from their earliest years. He said that a child could grow up either trusting the people and world he lived in or feeling insecure and uncertain about them. A child would either feel safe or unsafe, and a lot depended on this basic […]

Filed Under: Children and Depression Tagged With: childhood, family, fear, safety, trust

When Holding Hands Is Hard to Do

by John Folk-Williams 6 Comments

Holding hands in negative image

The first time our two oldest sons, at ages 3 and 4.5, went for a walk without their parents, I learned something about love and trust. My wife and I had decided to let them walk a short distance up the hill from our house to a play area. They had insisted this was no […]

Filed Under: Relationship Tagged With: emotion, fear, neuroscience, partners, trust

Finding Self-Compassion through Focusing

by John Folk-Williams 7 Comments

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Focusing is one of the few methods that has helped me understand depression as I experience it, well beyond the scope of clinical descriptions. It has also given me an approach to self-compassion that is more effective than the various meditations I have tried. As Eugene Gendlin acknowledges in Focusing, his self-help version of the […]

Filed Under: Healing, Self-Help Tagged With: awareness, felt sense, focusing, pain, trust

Restoring Trust After a Depressed Partner Returns

by John Folk-Williams 61 Comments

I’ve written a lot on this blog (here and here, among many others) about the mindset of depressed partners who are pulling away from their closest relationships. It’s important to look at the other side too – the desire to return. Hopefully, they’ll come back from the illness, whether they’ve remained at home while they’ve […]

Filed Under: Depressed Partners Tagged With: depression, expectation, partner, trust

Is It Loneliness or Is It Depression?

by John Folk-Williams 88 Comments

It may seem strange to pose this question: is it loneliness or is it depression? After all, many people feel loneliness at the loss or weakening of close relationships because of depression, and most of us who’ve lived with the condition over a lifetime experience those broken connections as some of its worst effects. On […]

Filed Under: Depression Causes, Isolation, Reconnecting, Recovery Tagged With: connecting, depression, intimacy, marriage, partner, trust

Carl Rogers: The Flow of Becoming a Person

by John Folk-Williams 9 Comments

Carl Rogers summarized what he had learned about his own process of becoming a person in an essay entitled “This is Me,” found in On Becoming a Person. This discussion helps illuminate the beliefs he gained from experience about effective change and acceptance of one’s self. He concluded that paper with a brief statement on […]

Filed Under: Recovery Tagged With: feelings, life, risk, trust

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