I’m feeling rather done. It’s been about a year for my blog and for the past couple months I feel like I have nothing to say. The well either dried up or I just don’t want to go to the well anymore. Either way, I’m wrapping er up. It’s been incredible that strangers, well some READ MORE
Tag: Peer Into Wellness
Can Anything Good Come of Depression?
This week I was on Carrie-Ann Baron’s Tenacious Living Radio Show talking about my experience of depression. Here’s a link to the podcast. As I told Carrie-Ann, a lot of good can come of depression but it sure isn’t worth the price. ********** A few weeks ago, my friend Leslie Bennett (here’s her blog) did READ MORE
Mental Disorders: Do They Excuse Bad Behaviour?
I have a lot of patience for people dealing with depression because I know what it’s like. Well to be honest, I don’t have much patience for people who endlessly unload about how miserable they are but they’ve tended to be a minority. When it comes to mental disorders I haven’t experienced, which is most READ MORE
Tips To Recover Faster from Depression
When I started this blog last summer, I believed you could recover faster if you had a connection with someone who’s been there done that. Now I’m not so sure. And that’s why you haven’t heard from me in awhile. I’ve come to think that the value of a connection with a peer is much READ MORE
Understand Depression and How to Relieve it – What Human Givens Teaches
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Andrew Richardson, Human Givens practitioner. Human Givens is UK based and only 15 years old yet there is respectable peer reviewed evidence that it helps with depression more effectively than medication or CBT. Human Givens is more than another model of counselling and purports to be a READ MORE
Depression Recovery: How Long is Too Long?
When I started this blog last summer, one of my goals was to share what I had learned in my 20+ years of depression so that others could recover faster than I did. I don’t actually know how long it should take. No one does but that doesn’t stop me from thinking that I should READ MORE
Misconceptions About Suicide
I’m currently reading an absorbing book called The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon. The book’s been out since 2001 and truly is an atlas – a comprehensive lay of the land of depression. The chapter on suicide reminded me of a few misconceptions about suicide. Misconception #1: Your life must be READ MORE
The 8 Challenges of Depression Recovery
It took me more than a decade to recover from depression, partly because I had no clue what recovery was and how to get it. On top of this cluelessness, I struggled with doubting my ability to recover, invalidating comments by others, my self-identity, feeling alone with depression, and generally not understanding what to expect READ MORE
Rehumanizing Workplaces with Peer Support
Imagine if there was someone at work who had recovered from depression and knew how to talk with you to help you cope and recover. They would listen to you and actually get what you were saying! They could coach you on handling conversations with your co-workers, HR or your manager. They could help you READ MORE
How to Make CBT Work For You
If you’ve tried CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) you know it isn’t easy. If you haven’t, well you might want to. CBT helps with stopping the negative thinking that feeds negative emotions. Based on my struggles with CBT, here is my best advice on how to make CBT work for you. Consider learning mindfulness first. I READ MORE