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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Intro As you may know if you follow Ackadia, I’ve been struggling with ill-health for several years now and spells of sometimes suicidal levels of chronic depression, the last – current – spell being especially bad, probably the worst. Details don’t matter but I had myself put in hospital before I got any worse and
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway. Empowering yourself to escape depression. Read More »
You know in all the ‘action movies’ where the besieged heroes are valiantly crossing the decrepit rope bridge, rotten boards breaking off and falling hundreds of feet down into the chasm, rope or vines on the main cable coming apart, one strand at a time? Well, that’s life. Stuff happens. You get over it. Sometimes
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Picking a compact camera Before we go on, this isn’t about reviewing cameras, it’s about choosing the best camera for the job. In this case it’s a good quality, lightweight all round camera, one that a professional won’t be ashamed to have in their pocket, but at the same time isn’t too complex for a
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How kidney failure concerns led to discovering an embolism Health is a precious commodity You don’t realise how valuable it is – until it starts to run out! There’s an eye-opening headline for you, eh! Certainly melodramatic, probably but by no means definitely an exaggeration, but, in essence, it’s true! Perhaps "Having kidney failure may
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Windows: A brief history Pre-windows (on the PC) Ignoring any Unix and Apple flavours, the first multi-tasking ‘windows’ program was IBM’s Topview application, released in 1984. After this, in July 1985, some four months before the first Microsoft version, Quarterdeck released DESQview. November 20th, 1985: Windows 1.0 The first version of Windows™ It’s main selling
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