Category Archives: Making Changes in Your Life

I belong to a Linked in group that concerns itself with the treatment of anxiety and depression. A few weeks back I posted the following question: could you tell me what is the greatest tool, other than medication, that you … Continue reading →

Depression is a strange and unpredictable affliction. I have a friend who has been depressed since he was sixteen years old and one day settled into a moderate stage of depression he could live with most of the time. He … Continue reading →

When I was in major depression, negative thoughts started bombarding me in the early morning hours. And one negative thought led to another. First I’d worry about the money I had spent unnecessarily the day before. Then I’d think about … Continue reading →

What does one do when depression is unrelenting and ongoing, month after month, year after year? How does one live life in depression? After a couple years of terrible suffering and a hope that I would be struck dead by … Continue reading →

As year after year of my depression dragged on, it seemed this would be my lot in life until I died, and I hoped that event would come sooner rather than later. Then came a day when, not with a … Continue reading →

In dealing with stress that is beyond our control, it is not the stress itself that is the problem; it is our reaction to it. Stephen Covey addresses this in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. He says there … Continue reading →

An entry from my journal on February 1, 2007, one week after I had changed psychiatrists and was meeting almost daily with a psychotherapist. “This depression is worse than anything I had thought. My thinking is so distorted, I don’t … Continue reading →

By Emily Esfahani Smith “It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.” In September 1942, Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, was arrested and transported to a Nazi concentration camp with his wife and … Continue reading →

Once depression strikes, you’re never the same again. It is as if the script of your life is changed from one of being a “normal” person to one of being a person afflicted with depression, or a person who has … Continue reading →

By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on January 18, 2013 An emerging field of research is personality psychology — a scientific look at how people differ from each other and how differences in … Continue reading →