Depression does not define you. With depression, some of us may have difficulty remembering what we were like before the episode. We struggle to separate the symptoms of depression from “my regular self.” Depression is a set of symptoms. It is not what makes you “you,” does not make you who you are. You are more than your depression, more than a set of symptoms. You have personality, character traits (like kindness or a sense[…]
Mother’s Day means different things to different people. It has been around a long time, dating back to the early Greeks and Romans in 250 BC, then again in 1600 AD England as “Mothering Sunday,” and became an official U.S. holiday in 1914. The holiday is observed in different forms throughout the world, but the intent is the same – to honor the mothers or grandmothers who raised us. In the current era, Mother’s Day[…]
A viewer wrote in recently and I noticed that she tended to use negative labels to describe herself. She is not alone in this! Many of us, particularly those who suffer with major depression, bipolar depression or other mental illness, are prone to this. We often see the world through dark gray lenses that color our life experiences and twist or distort everything to the negative. That is one of the main symptoms of depression. […]
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