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Holiday Coping Tips

Sunday, November 15th, 2009
I thought I'd write a few words about the holidays and the blues, because this is the time of the year people commonly experience feelings of depression, sadness, and loss when many others are enjoying ...
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What’s the Difference Between Depression and Manic Depression?

Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Sometimes people are confused about the differences between clinical depression and manic depression. And it's no wonder -- they both have the word "depression" in their names. That's one of the reason's manic depression's clinical ...
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The Depression Advantage

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Depression, like other mental illnesses, is rarely seen as a good thing. While many can articulate positive things about having a mental illness (or knowing someone who does), the illness itself is almost never ...
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Conquering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most difficult conditions for anyone to bear. Many who encounter life-threatening events or situations that threaten physical or emotional safety become burdened by a variety of intense ...
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We Shouldn’t Need a Day of Our Own

Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Everybody in the United States is terribly aware the second Sunday in May is Mother's Day -- the floral and greeting card industries won’t let you forget it. Mother's Day is big business. (Whether people ...
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Extreme Thinking and Moods Are The Death of Creativity

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
You probably have heard that many of the world's most creative people often had some sort of mental illness. While I can see some truth in this viewpoint, I offer a different opinion: In ...
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Another Antidepressant Journey

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Today I have spent a lot of time on the phone with both a nurse and my psychiatrist. Our big topic of the day? How to get me off Celexa. I started ...
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Sylvia Plath’s Legacy

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
For someone who has only read her biography and never read any of Sylvia Plath’s actual poetry, I spend an awful lot of time thinking about her. That’s because I suffer from chronic depression ...
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Yoga for Treatment of Anxiety and Depression

Monday, April 6th, 2009
Can yoga help in the treatment of anxiety and depression? Since the 1970s, meditation and other stress-reduction techniques have been studied as possible treatments for depression and anxiety. One such practice, yoga, has received less attention ...
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Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin

Monday, April 6th, 2009
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin By Norah Vincent New York: Viking, December 2008 Hardcover, 283 pages $25.95 Immersion journalism, as it’s called, can be kind of fun on a limited basis. In my days ...
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The Healing Power of a Good Therapist

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face. —D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality, 1971 Thirteen years ago I gave birth to my very much wanted third child. Eight months later I ended up in ...
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Lifestyle Tips for Dealing with Depression

Monday, March 23rd, 2009
If you are affected by depression, you are not "just" sad or upset; you have a condition that involves intense feelings of persistent sadness, helplessness and hopelessness, together with physical problems such as sleeplessness, loss ...
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About Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD)

Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Clinical depression can sometimes be difficult to treat. When a person has tried multiple types of treatment options to treat their depression (sometimes even with multiple professionals) over the course of months or even ...
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Living with Schizoaffective Disorder, Part 2

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
The Heebee-Jeebies Be careful when you wrestle with monsters, lest you thereby become one. For, if you stare long enough into the abyss, the abyss also stares into you. -- Friedrich Nietszche Now I ...
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Living with Schizoaffective Disorder

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Being schizoaffective is like having manic depression and schizophrenia at the same time. It has a quality all its own though which is harder to pin down. Manic depression is characterized by a cycle of ...
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