49 this week, the years go fast! (End August 2011) Still waiting to see the NHS psychologists, but doing what I can to keep my moods in check and avoid the really dark lows. According to the last update I had I am third in the queue for screening – and it will be another […]
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NOTE : A Work in progress! Day one: My current level of French is a few half-remembered words from an ‘O’ level college course decades ago, one I never completed anyway. I’ve decided after years of depression and of hiding forever in games like WoW* that I want to turn my life around before it’s
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Vox Pox: intro Note: This was actually something I did back in 1990 as part of a Desktop Publishing or some other IT course I was doing at the time. Can’t even remember the package I used. Long obsolete now, whatever it was. Vox Pox : The Voice of the People: Education in shambles! Lifes
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Home : updates for February through August 2011 Has not been a good year so far. Spent most of it so far crippled with depression (even worse than usual) and then hospitalised for blood clots on my lungs (pulmonary embelism). On the plus side, albeit in a very unhealthy manner, I’ve lost 4 or 5
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Defeat depression: 52 brilliant ideas for healing a troubled mind ~ by Dr Sabina Dosani This is a subjective review by a chronically depressed bloke that’s close to had enough. I read this yesterday but felt at the time I got little from it, though it was an easy read and did raised the odd
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Coping with Depression. A guide to what works for patients carers and professionals This is a subjective review of the above book, by Dr Costas Papageorgiou, Dr Hannah Goring and Dr Justin Haslam After a brief introduction the book starts with a chapter by an unnamed patient of theirs whose health problems were attributed to
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Intro This was and is more for myself, but 1 in 4 people have depression or other mental health issues at some point in their life or, for some, throughout there life, so perhaps you may find it useful too, whether as a clinician, as someone with mental health problems, or with someone close that
Breaking the depression cycle. My positive affirmation and empowerment list. Read More »
Rediscovering myself Yourself, or as here, myself. This will be a long, rambling post. This is primarily for my benefit, to find my center again and where I need to be in life to heal. If you get something out of it, great. If you see this as blowing my own trumpet, that’s good too.
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