Tagged: Depression

1 May, 2016

Is There Relief After A Fall?

I often feel like I can barely stay standing. It’s like I’m on the brink of falling, collapsing. Maybe if I did, I’d feel a bit better, because I’d get...

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13 Apr, 2016

This Thing Called Life

Sometimes I feel like I cannot do this living thing. How do you do this all the time? Day in day out? How do you keep going?

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11 Apr, 2016

Some Things Never Really Go Away

Some things never go away, no matter how hard we try to rid ourselves of them. They never go away. Not completely at least.

Self-Hate: An unwelcome/welcome discovery I made not so long ago

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6 Apr, 2016

(Un)welcome Discovery

An unwelcome/welcome discovery I made not so long ago.

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26 Mar, 2016

When You Don’t Mind Your Medication

Specific drugs can be used to decrease the symptoms of depression. But if you don’t take them as prescribed, even after you are feeling better, your road to recovery will be longer. Even worse, you might be doing yourself more harm than good. And your stressors and triggers will be harder to manage.

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22 Mar, 2016

When You Can’t Take It Anymore

What happens when you can’t take it anymore and you try to fight back?

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15 Mar, 2016

What Do You See When You Look At Yourself In The Mirror?

People don’t see us like we see ourselves. We don’t see ourselves like people see us. And sometimes, we don’t see ourselves at all.

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11 Mar, 2016

Self-Hate

Why is it so hard to love one self? How do you stop the self-hate cycle?

Gratefulness and Depression and Self-Worth

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2 Mar, 2016

When Being Grateful Doesn’t Give You The Warm Fuzzies

The Latin root of grateful, “gratus”, implies pleasure or something pleasing. In other words, to be grateful is to be full of pleasure. So why does this warm feeling escape me when I’m grateful?

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28 Feb, 2016

What Happens When You Rationalize Your Emotions?

What happens when you rationalize your emotions? If you were hurting, would you hurt less? Would your rationalizations keep the pain away in the first place? Can you protect yourself without punishing yourself one way or the other?