Comments on: Top Ten Depression Blogs, 2007

By: chantel

chantel — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:09:18 +0000

I’m so angry and I don’t know how to let it out. I don’t think I’m a big enough person to forgive all those who have “wronged” me. I try so hard to live a good life and stay positive but sometimes my mind just keeps replaying all the tramatic events of my life. Compared to some, my life isn’t that bad,but I can’t get rid of this anger and frustration, depression, feeling of abandonment, feeling worthless…Is there a way to be happy? Most say yes. But why haven’t I mastered it? Please help me gain insight on how to let all the bad go for good so I can finally be happy!

By: The outcast

The outcast — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:39:28 +0000

today i relized everyday i am depressed no matter what is going on around me. No matter who is in my life it just never seems like it is enough. The only thing that seems to get me through the day is music. i know this is supposed to be a comment about this website so i very much support it and hope one day to start one of my own.

By: Not Alone

Not Alone — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:14:17 +0000

Found this one website. This guy just writes what he is thinking with his eyes closed. Its pretty funny but so true. It basically just sums up what he thinks about life. He has some solid logic. WARNING tho: not for the faint of heart.

http://depressionandshit.webs.com

By: The star

The star — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:32:09 +0000

http://whatthestar.blogspot.com/2009/12/wtsever-feel-like-your-reaching-for.html

Is a good site to read on depression and learn about it in a different way.

By: A Long and Winding Post « The New World Lusophone Sousaphone

A Long and Winding Post « The New World Lusophone Sousaphone — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:10:27 +0000

[...] due to a bout of what William Styron once called, after Milton, the old darkness visible. The same diabolical malaise that occasioned our migration from Berkeley to New York City in 1996, in [...]

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:30:43 +0000

I forgot the site name:

beautyandwoe.wordpress.com

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:30:03 +0000

Check out this site. It’s new, about a 27 year old mother of 2 who’s a military spouse. She is very honest and open about how she feels. She started blogging and I hope she continues.

Kim

By: Charles Bivona

Charles Bivona — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:45:43 +0000

The wounds that run deepest, the bruises on the bones of my mind, have for so long been buried away. Just as Freud described, my inner screams have found three voices. For decades I kept unconsciously seeking situations that mimicked my original abuses. I couldn’t confront the people who abused me as a child. I wasn’t strong enough, yet. I wasn’t ready. I needed practice. So my unconscious mind blindly sought situations, friends, and lovers that felt abusive in the old ways. Mastering these relationships would also resolve the failures of the past. That was the unconscious plan.

Of course it didn’t work, but it was necessary. The swallowed tears of so many years and beatings were poisoning my mind. I was denying it all to protect myself, and my mind was groping for any way to spit it all out.
I hit rock bottom. Everything in my life failed: too many girlfriends lost, so many jobs lost, friends and family estranged, trapped in a marriage of emotional convenience–with no money, no pleasure, no passion, and no creativity or poems. I stayed in bed, weeping, for days. I finally understood what was happening to me. I hit the concrete floor of my psyche and scraped off a layer of skin. It hurt from my center out. I had never been so scared, but I still wanted to fight.

I needed to remember what had happened to me. I started talking it out with my few true friends and my family. I worked with a few great therapists and — for one surreal month — a sagely psychiatrist at the end of his practice.

Slowly, very slowly, I started scraping away at my shell of repression. I gradually started remembering. Today, I experience sudden and overwhelming emotional connections. I realize why I made certain past choices. I feel stupid and ashamed and worthless. I cry. I shake. I curl in a ball. I remember. I remember. I remember. I suddenly started writing.

The pain is so old it smells dusty, it bursts from my pores. I hurt in the old ways. I taste the adrenaline of the original fear in my mouth. I feel the old clench of terror in my entire body. Every muscles braces for more punishment.

It seize me up sometimes. I’m at the kitchen sink, doing the dishes, and I freeze. I remember in my body, as much as my mind. I shake. I flash back. I feel waves of terror and confusion wash over me. It’s all coming out, at last.

All I can think to do is write it all out, so I do. It helps. It’s healing. I am forgiving the past for its failings. I am forgiving myself, slowly, for my own.
I am finally speaking, repeating it all — one horrifying flash at a time — remembering and working through.

Please, all of you, be well.

By: Luz M. Costa

Luz M. Costa — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:30:55 +0000

forgot the URL

CharlesBivona.com

By: Luz M. Costa

Luz M. Costa — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:25:42 +0000

This is my favorite depression blog. He’s an English Professor, poet, and creative writer who has lived with depression for decades. The writing is literary and raw, artful and honest.

By: Indie

Indie — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:27:47 +0000

please include this as well…..

http://unconsciousheart.blogspot.com/

By: 100 Luxury Sites 2007 at Musings & Insights of the Curious

100 Luxury Sites 2007 at Musings & Insights of the Curious — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:53:18 +0000

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By: Rare long, rambling, stream-of-consciousness post « depression introspection

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:39:37 +0000

[...] but not least, I’m trying out the Optimism software from the site Finding Optimism named by PsychCentral’s Top Ten Depression Blogs in 2007. So far so good. It’s pretty basic but allows me to keep track of whether I took my meds, [...]

By: Declan

Declan — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:38:52 +0000

Thank you for a great insight into the blogs of others. Finding Optimism was one of my favourite sites.

My cousin who had been suffering from depression also started his own blog about his experiences of depression recovery which is here:
http://www.springbackintolife.com

By: Byron

Byron — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:04:30 +0000

I’ve suffered through clinical depression for a few years now. However this multi-faceted disease has a multi-faceted treatment that has worked for me thus far. However my biggest concern is how society still seems to view depression. I have made my attempts to inform on my own blog at: http://theirdepression.blogspot.com/