Triumph Over Depression

In this life, there are many melodies to which you can listen, and the choice you make will determine the quality of your life.

Is your music the harsh song of this world, the hammering away at your senses, and the constant strain of activities and events that play through your life?

Or do you listen to the flat and discordant notes Continue reading →

This is an article I found in WWW.storiedmind.com. I would highly recommend anyone who has had depression and every spouse living with a depressed person read this posting.

I’ve often described the way depression can break up close relationships, but does the illness explain everything? How responsible are depressed partners for the human cost that others pay because of what they do when they’re ill?

One reader told me I’d confused her Continue reading →

We will always have stress; the trick is in controlling the bad stress. Here are some simple techniques to lower your own levels.

Here is an article written by Geoffrey James in Sales Source. Geoffrey James  “Sales Source”

According to the American Psychological Association, stress can result in headache, muscle tension, muscle pain, chest pain, fatigue, upset stomach, insomnia, anxiety, restlessness, lack of motivation, lack of focus, irritability, depression, Continue reading →

This posting came from an article Tom Wootton posted in Psychology Today, with his approval for it to be on my site.  It reinforces what I keep saying about the holistic healing of depression – body, soul, and spirit.  It’s not just the body. It’s not just the soul (mind, will, and emotions). It’s not just the spirit. It’s all three. We learn tools to keep our depression within the boundaries we can function in, and the fear of depression goes away.

Those who do not understand depression and mania think that the only way to control it is to make it go away. It works for a while, Continue reading →

This copy is on the back cover of my first novel, TOO LATE IN THE AFTERNOON: One Man’s Triumph Over Depression. I am not posting this to entice you to buy my book but because Van Langeland has captured the theme of the book from his perspective as a licensed professional counselor, and it includes a number of prescriptions for triumphing over depression other than medication. Van is talking about the soul here, one of the three entities of a person that needs healing – body, soul, and spirit.

Too Late In The Afternoon is a compelling story that takes you on Mitch Jasper’s healing journey through Continue reading →

I don’t have a methodical plan to have orderly postings of the healing of depression through the body, soul, and spirit. Instead, I depend on the leading of the Lord to bring to mind the sequence of postings as He sees fit.  And so, He has brought to mind that it’s time for something spiritual.

In Chapter 61 of Isaiah, the first verse, Isaiah is prophesying the coming of Jesus:

He [the Father] has sent me [Jesus] to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.

Isn’t this a rather profound description of depression? Those in depression are Continue reading →