Coping with depression is not easy. It can be helpful to have a few skills to use when things get tough. It’s important to note that these skills won’t be a cure. Plus, if you’re suffering from clinical major depression, the kind that majorly gets in...
Lots of weird terms are being bandied about these days, election depression being only one of them. Anxiety, anger, fear, stress–all are at a high. Therapists and other people in the “healing” professions are holding a lot of space for people whose...
I was having a conversation with a woman who was in a bad mood and was being very judgmental of herself for having the mood. I knew something about the judging self so I thought I could be helpful. This woman had stepped away from everyone else and, being the nosy guy...
Do you ever feel that way? Just some sense that things are off. You ask yourself, “Why do I feel the way I do?” It’s especially distressing if you can’t figure out the “why?” We feel better knowing that we have a good reason to not...
Imagine that aggressive violence was never in your consciousness. Imagine you settled disputes through all kinds of other methods. Anger and rage, even acts of self-defense would be different because you’d be in a world where violence was just never an option....
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