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Donna-1

family day

Can I vent here for just a moment? Family days take all the starch out of me. Tomorrow is Mom's 84th birthday so today we all met for lunch at a local restaurant after attending church together. I still feel like I have to referee, to be the mediator between various parties. I never even had any children, but I feel like... Read more Chevron

posted 07/17/2011, comments (6)|

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do we accept responsibility for our illness

Well, what is the alternative? Abdication of the throne of self-knowledge? I'm not saying we are responsible for the initial traumatizing event, whatever that might be, or for the fuzziness of diagnoses. There may not BE that initial event. There may not be a diagnosis with which you agree. I'm saying once that event... Read more Chevron

posted 05/18/2011, comments (7)|

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Who would we be without our stories?

Check out this article: http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mentoring-recovery/2011/05/who-would-you-be-without-your-story/ Who would you be without "your story?" My story includes social anxiety, recurrent depression, love of animals, recovery, bread-making, Christian, sexual abuse as an adult, medication issues, many fishing trips, and... Read more Chevron

posted 05/06/2011, comments (2)|

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the greening of a metaphor

Feeling depressed is one thing. Seeing the devastation is quite another. And a certain amount of mental clarity must be had before the seeing can take place. So a certain amount of recovery must be in process. But one helps the other. Seeing is believing and gives impetus to recovery. I was always aware that depression was taking its toll because... Read more Chevron

posted 04/26/2011, comments (4)|

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how time passes

How does time pass for you? When I am in the midst of depression, time (a day for instance) seems to pass very slowly. But because of the way it affects my memory, the whole of time seems to pass very quickly. The decades are gone before I know it. I know time flies by for most people, but that isn't quite what I'm getting at. My memory doesn't... Read more Chevron

posted 04/22/2011, comments (2)|

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