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Thursday, November, 26, 2009
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Dealing with Depression at Work

Deborah Gray
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Deborah Gray is the creator of the Wing of Madness depression site
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Deborah Gray lived with undiagnosed clinical depression, both major...

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Sometimes a job is just a job, but for most people it's more. It's our second home and often provides our second family. It can be either the provider or the destroyer of our self-worth. We define ourselves to a great extent by our work - after all, what is one of the first questions we are asked whe...
  1. "one thing thankful for"
    Laura
    Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 02:04 PM

    "When I was going through bout after bout of major depression, there was one thing I was thankful for. For some reason, I was able to keep myself together at work and not collapse until I got home. I'm not sure why - maybe because work generally invigorates me and it gave me something to focus on."

     

    At the beginning this might be true, but (it always has a but) if you have a family it surely drains you more having only energy to go to work and not when they are around.  It sure takes you down... (and the cycle continues.)  lg

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