There is a common misconception about depression. In order to convey my point, let me ask you this. Would you consider cancer an illness? If you would, then on the logic that cancer is an illness of the body, surely you ca...read more
I just LOVE it when people tell me that depression is self-induced and that I need to snap out of it. Of course! Why didn't I think of that? Yes, I have chosen to feel like part of my head is missing. I want to have thi...read more
by Erik Reid
Depression heals. It allows the depressive patient a chance to crawl inside themselves. It hurts like hell, but by withdrawing it allows someone to heal. The greatest of all American psychiatrists, Harry Stack Sulliv...read more
by Ah Pek
Depression is self induced. If you refuse to be depress, you won't. This statement is going to set many a people depressed because I sound like I'm an impassionate fool, but that's how I handle depression. I refuse to be d...read more
by Crystal Cook
So here it is . . . the pit. Well, I suppose it is more of a pothole really but it certainly feels much deeper right now. I don't even know how I fell into it. One misstep and BLAM! I was on my behind at the bottom scratch...read more
by John Falloon
THE INNER HEBRIDES COMPASSIONATE SOCIETY Dear Sir/Madam You will have heard of the terrible disaster in the small village of Watamtiki, The Inner Hebrides, in April of this year, in which several businesses, includin...read more
by Sarah Flake
Antidepressants. I get it. It's not healthy to be doom and gloom 24/7. Better to medicate. So then we look to the opposite end of the spectrum...cheerfulness. How much is too much? Can you be unhealthily happy? In some sit...read more
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