depression | depression
Dec.15.2011
A close friend is going through a particularly bad patch of depression right now. She told me she feels empty and I missed the point when I offered some suggestions to ease the depression and get back on the holiday track. I do that sometimes, offer help instead of just shutting up and listening....
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Dec.02.2011
Sounds crazy but if extra calories stress your body why not your mind? Overload can lead to depression whether it be food or any of the other factors in life that wreck havoc on our well-being. Consult your doctor if you have depression, especially severe, but next time try avoiding eating that...
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Nov.15.2011
As a licensed psychotherapist, I'm trained to look for depression based on the "I'm not good enough" stories we tell ourselves, the emotional havoc that divorce, illness or financial distress can create, or mapping the depleted chemical river running though the brains of recent generations...
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Sep.28.2011
I was diagnosed with a mental illness last year. A mild mood disorder called dysthymia. I wondered how will people see me now that I’ve gone public with dysthymia? Will they think I’m crazy? That I need to be instutionalized? Or maybe that I’m a criminal? None of the above is true, so how is it...
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Sep.19.2011
Hello every diabetic has found themselves thinking, that it won't hurt just this one time to skip the accu check reading or my medicine. A mistake is just that a mistake, if you take care of the over sight later it more than likely will not have long term effects on your diabetes control.
If...
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Sep.14.2011
I thought I was prepared for the inevitable crash that would hit me when I graduated from my MFA program at Ashland University. I know that first semester out of school can feel a little lonely and isolating. I had even prepared for the time off with piles of fiction books I hadn’t had time to read...
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Sep.11.2011
Here we are in 2010 and there is no difference. The magic of a new year never happened. We're still hanging on while the politicians -- who receive their paychecks monthly -- drive our economy farther into a ditch. I had melancholy hope in September/ October that things would look up. Instead there...
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Aug.29.2011
If you suffer from any form of depression you have two choices. One, you can ask for help from a professional or two, you can live with depression hoping no one will notice and it won't affect your life much.
The statistics are staggering. Over 40% of women do not seek help for depression due to...
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Aug.09.2011
Childhood is a vulnerable time for many children and abuse comes in many forms. I was a victim of what I call "benign neglect. I lived alone with a mother who was distant and sometimes cruel. I know today that she suffered from depression but as a child all I knew was pain. Food, shelter,...
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Aug.07.2011
Recently, one of my relatives told me that dysthymia is nothing more than a mild depression, that I should do my research and I was making a big deal out of nothing. Nothing? Depression is nothing?
Here’s why I wrote a book on this rarely talked about disorder:
1. Mild depression can...
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