Too Happy, Too Strong, and Too Darn Cute for Depression: My Rude Awakening
Years later, I still get emotional reading excerpts from the journal I kept when I was diagnosed with a chemical imbalance causing depression. I remember feeling sick in a way that I had trouble...
View ArticleFacing My Father’s Death and My Fear of Depression
By the time my father was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, I had been “better” from my depression for a few years. By better I mean that I liked to believe I was cured, like it was just a dark...
View ArticleWhen the Happy Pill Didn't Work: Finding the Right Antidepressant
When you’re diagnosed with depression, you trust your doctor to put you on medication that will work its magic and make you all better. That’s what doctors do, isn’t it: know what to do to make you...
View Article10 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Depression
I have talked about how difficult coming to terms with and accepting my diagnosis was because what I was feeling felt anything but like depression, or at least what I thought it to be. Had I known more...
View ArticleThings You Shouldn’t Say to Someone Who’s Depressed?
I recently read an article about the things that you shouldn’t say to a person who is depressed. I was drawn to the article because I could see how some things could drive you (me) up the wall while...
View ArticleExercise and Depression
I snicker when I read about exercise being the best way to treat depression naturally. Not because I don’t believe it, because I know better than many the rush a good workout is capable of providing...
View ArticleThe Sting of Being Accused of Faking Your Depression
How many times has someone implied or even all-out accused you of “faking” or “exaggerating” your depression? Stings, doesn’t it? I can sympathise because years later being accused of faking still...
View ArticleAntidepressants and Low Sex Drive: Just Do It
This is not a promo for antidepressants or sex or even Nike—though I do thank them for the awesome slogan! This is some straight talk about antidepressants and the havoc they can wreak on your sex...
View ArticleIs Efexor Making You A Problem Gambler or Thief?
I read an article in the news about the antidepressant Efexor, and a possible link between the medication and problem gambling. Now, the “link” they are referring to in the article isn’t a scientific...
View ArticleDepressed After A Nap?
I say all the time that I feel that depression stays a part of you even long after you feel that you’ve been “cured” and for me it seems most true after naps. I know it sounds strange, but I find that...
View ArticleMental Breaks: The Things That Kept Me Sane When I Thought I Wasn’t
I make no secret of the fact that I think that medication played a small role in my recovery in comparison to the things that I did—or was forced to do—to try to keep myself from giving into depression...
View ArticleFeeling of a Lump or Something Stuck In Throat Due to Stress?
I am putting this one out there to share with others who are going through the same and in hopes of some answers myself. For the past 2+ years I have been dealing with a feeling of something in my...
View ArticleThe Latest in the World of Depression Research? Meh.
Being up on the latest depression news and findings isn’t just something I do as a depression blogger but also as a sufferer of depression. No matter how good a grasp I have gotten on my depression,...
View ArticleThe Twitching Eye
As I sit here watching my left eye lid twitch five times in a row, every half hour like clockwork, I am reminded again of all the crazy things that stress can do to your body. I remember the last time...
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