To all of you who are alone or feel alone on the holidays this year, please know that you are not the only one. Perhaps your family lives far away or members have passed away. Perhaps you don’t get along very well with some of them, they are dismissive of your illness and when you do get together it feels even worse. So it’s better to keep a distance. You know you have close friends,[…]
While watching a rerun of the popular TV show NCIS recently, the character Ducky gave a great piece of advice in his favorite quote “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” Some attribute this saying to Winston Churchill, but that has never been verified. I was struck by these words. First, I was relaxed and mindlessly watching a TV show to pass the time and be entertained; I did not expect to stumble upon something[…]
It’s easy to lose a sense of your personal dignity when depressed, but it doesn’t have to be. You might wonder: what is dignity, and what does that have to do with depression? Think of dignity as a sense of having self-respect as a human being and being worthy of respect from others, and behaving in a way that shows this. It’s an indication of how we value ourselves, that we matter, that our opinions[…]
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