Welcome! I hope you will find the resources you need here to begin a path to recovery from Anxiety and Depression. You will find short articles for education and encouragement as well as links to sources for related topics.
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Overcome fear and you are on your way out of depression But to do it, you may need to take one little step – let someone who cares help you get moving. In this blog I am not addressing change for a person who is severely depressed or suicidal. I am writing about those who are […]
Fear of success is sometimes a bigger obstacle than fear of failure. In my previous blog, I was advocating asking others to help you move out of depression, drawing on their creativity, problem solving and their optimism to help you get energized. Whether you want to or not, you probably have to rely on other people […]
The natural antidepressant impact of using the depressed tendency to ruminate to strengthen networks of positive experience I was recently out with my 6-year-old grandson (I know, how lucky can a person be?), and as we returned to our car, a family in the parking lot was clearly trying to start a very dead car. […]
I don’t typically write about medications because I do not prescribe them. I am a psychologist and treat people with psychotherapy methods.
When people want to move forward, depression holds them back. Change is hard. Even when you want the change. You may be choosing a path that has all the hallmarks of the right thing and yet putting your foot on that path brings fear and an urge to turn around. Manny has been depressed since […]
Springboard out of negative networks into new solutions. Rumination is one of the similarities between an anxiety and depression. Ruminating is simply repetitively going over a thought or a problem without completion. When people are depressed, the themes of rumination are typically about being inadequate or worthless. The repetition and the feelings of inadequacy raise […]
Everyone feels anxiety. This is a normal human condition. It is what we feel in response to ambiguity. When you do not know what is going on, when you do not know what to do about what is going on or when you do not know what may happen next, you feel anxiety. So what […]
Lighten your depression when you set a boundary and keep it. Even when you are completely clear that someone else is not treating you with respect and you wish it could be different, depression tend to rob you of energy to make changes. It can help you to know that changing boundaries and setting limits […]
Lighten your depression when you set a boundary and keep it When I mention healthy boundaries to people, they often hear “creating conflict” or “saying no.” The idea of boundaries feels like I may be asking them to put up a wall, to keep others away or just be alone without anyone near them. If […]
Everybody manage stress differently. What stresses one person out may be only a blip on the screen of another’s life. That is so hard to remember when you are the one who is stressing out and can’t figure out what to do next.. I was so reminded of this while traveling this last week. As […]
“When I am yelling at myself, who is the real me?” An intriguing question posed by I a very sharp woman trying to grasp the nature of self criticism and the way it rules her life. We examined her criticisms of herself to hear how she might be damaging her own self-esteem, rather than waiting […]
Anxiety is what you feel when you are faced with uncertainty. When you do not know what is going on or what you should do about it, you react with a feeling of anxiety.
“Dummy!” “Idiot!” “Screw-up!” “Bitch!” The labels you may give yourself when depressed often emerge from a shame-based self image and are not surprisingly the names you have been called in the home you grew up in. But what happens when you believe those labels are accurate? Your self image can direct many of your choices […]
