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• Top Relapse Triggers for Depression & How to Prevent Them
  “Depression is like many other common medical conditions, such as high blood ...
• Summer Island
  "It was the impurity in her heart that made her successful. She was an ordinary woman who’d made extraordinary mistakes. She understood every nuance of need and loss." ~ Summer Island Given my love for women’s ...
• The Song in You: Finding Your Voice, Redefining Your Life
  “I’ve discovered there’s genuine healing power in sharing your struggles. Accurately identifying what they are and where they came seems to take away their power.” With her book, LaDonna Gatlin does just that. The author is ...
• Depression Brain Changes Explored
  New discoveries are being made about changes in the brain during depression. Dr. Mia Lindskog of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and ...
• How to Improve Your Mood in a Hurry
  One week not long ago, I found myself busier than normal and unable to ...
• How Mindfulness Can Mitigate the Cognitive Symptoms of Depression
  Mindfulness, or paying full attention to the present moment, can be very helpful in improving the cognitive ...
• Strategies for Improving the Cognitive Symptoms of Depression
  “The texture of a depressed person’s brain functioning is that it’s operating in a depleted way,” according to ...
• The Cognitive Symptoms of Depression
  The cognitive symptoms of depression tend to receive less attention than other symptoms of this difficult illness. Namely, symptoms such ...
• Living with Chronic Pain and Depression
  About 50 percent of people who have chronic pain also have depression, according to Robert D. Kerns, ...
• When the First Treatment for Depression Doesn’t Work
  When the first treatment you try for your depression doesn’t work, it can feel ...
• Are You Feeling SAD?
  During the winter months we often hear people mention feeling “blue” or “down.” There are others that speak of SAD or Seasonal ...
• New Baby Blues or Postpartum Depression?
  “I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’m supposed to feel a surge of maternal instinct, right? I’m supposed to ...
• Grief and Mourning in Schizophrenia: A Safety Plan
  The diagnosis of schizophrenia has countless implications for an individual’s life. Being ...
• Letters to a Young Madman: A Memoir
  “You cannot distract yourself from grief. You cannot dispel it. You cannot conquer it. You can only live through it.” When Paul Gruchow first started putting Letters to a Young Madman together, he wondered how his disjointed ...
• 6 Signs that ‘Monday Morning Blues’ May Be an Emotional Alarm
  Read various website about how to combat the “Monday Blues” and you'll find pretty much the ...
• 9 Tips to Cope with Holiday Depression
  The stress of the holidays triggers sadness and depression for many people. This time of year is especially difficult ...
• When You Can’t Afford Psychotherapy
  You know you’re in trouble. Maybe you’ve been depressed for what seems like ages. You can’t get motivated to do things. You ...
• Blind Devotion: Survival on the Front Lines of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Addiction
  It would have been easy for Sharlene Prinsen to portray herself as a heroic martyr, or else as an innocent, one-dimensional victim. Yet in the memoir that centers on her marriage to a combat veteran ...
• I Am Not Silent: Our Zoloft and Depression Story
  The intersection of our mental health and criminal justice systems is one that is fraught with complications. Numerous questions arise when a defendant has a history of mental illness. For Gail Schmidkunz, this reality became ...
• Thanksgiving and Gratitude in Hard Times
  With Thanksgiving approaching, many Americans struggling with health, financial, and emotional problems find it challenging to feel grateful. Some ...
• Shame: The Core of Addiction and Codependency
  Shame is so painful to the psyche that most people will do anything to avoid it, even though it’s a ...
• Breath in the Dark: A Childhood Lost
  When I was 6 years old, my favorite pastime was playing with dolls or playing dress-up. I can remember spending hours in my “princess” dress, dancing around the living room while my mother stood by ...
• Healing Those Stubborn Emotional Wounds
  Mary was experiencing low self-esteem and worthlessness. She’d say her eyes were "broken faucets." She’d cry often, and would easily ...
• Blind Devotion: Survival on the Front Lines of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Addiction
  Blind Devotion is the bold firsthand account of Sharlene Prinsen’s relationship with her husband Sean; a combat veteran who served in Bosnia and has suffered from depression, addiction, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) since ...
• OCD: When Once is Not Enough
  “Say good-night mommy, say good-night,” pleaded Johnny every night. It wasn’t as if he had not already ...