Author Archives: Patrick Day

About Patrick Day

triumphoverdepression.org This blog is my ministry to support those who are depressed, in gratefulness for my having overcome major depression. Read "About Patrick Day" just to the right of "home" on the top of the blog site to find out more particulars about me. I retired from a career in higher education, where I served as Dean of Instruction, and promptly moved into a life of purposelessness and despair for five years, finally coming out on the other side. I am now an author, a business and life coach, a writer of this blog, and a volunteer for various organizations. What I write about in this blog is not hypothetical comments on depression. I have been there, felt the horrible pain, had my life disrupted, and experienced everything that I write about. I pray that I may be a blessing to you.

200. Reality

Posted on June 18, 2013

Reality is not what happens to you. It’s what you think happens to you. If you change the way you think, it can make a profound difference in your outlook on life. For example, when I was deep in depression … Continue reading →

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199. The Rest of the Story

Posted on June 14, 2013

Bob’s stress test story related in the previous blog adds another dimension to the stress bucket concept. In addition to avoiding too many high-stress situations at one time, it is also possible to diminish the level of intensity for high-stress … Continue reading →

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198. Bob’s Stress Test

Posted on June 11, 2013

The other day my friend Bob was telling me of a year in his life that was filled with an incredible set of high-stress circumstances that measured 18 on a stress chart of 20 points possible, an area marked in … Continue reading →

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197. Expectations

Posted on June 7, 2013

What expectations do you have for yourself? If you set the bar too high, you are vulnerable to disappointments and unhappiness…followed by frustration, anxiety, and stress.   Let me give you an extreme but actual example. When I was attending college … Continue reading →

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196. Look for the Light

Posted on June 4, 2013

This is a dark world we live in; and the darker it becomes, the more grist to feed depression. I was reading in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 4, the other morning and was arrested by verse 5 – “wait until the … Continue reading →

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195. Stress Bucket 2

Posted on May 31, 2013

One reader commenting about my last blog said that I was telling my client to “get well and she would immediately feel better.” I need to explain things more clearly. Having gone through four years of depression myself, I am … Continue reading →

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194. The Stress Bucket

Posted on May 28, 2013

As we all know, there is a very close connection between stress and the afflictions of depression and anxiety. I was coaching a client who had been struggling with low-grade depression for several years, which sometimes flared up into major … Continue reading →

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193. Solace in Fiction

Posted on May 24, 2013

There was a time in my life when reading the Victorian novels of George MacDonald were the only thing keeping me from going under. His characters were so real and so noble that I found in them a source of … Continue reading →

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192. We Are What We Eat

Posted on May 21, 2013

Hope for depression is not one big thing, a silver bullet so to speak. It’s the coming together of many things that add up to triumph over depression. One of those many things in our control is eating right. Let’s … Continue reading →

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191. Tools for Depression 2

Posted on May 17, 2013

“The art of active listening and empathy helps! Giving someone a safe, calm and inspiring environment in which to share their deepest pain without judgment or interruption can be very healing! “Words of encouragement, praise and connecting human to human … Continue reading →

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