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Depression / Spiritual Depression

How to Heal the Emotional Pain of Depression

Can Emotions Harm Us?
During depression, the intensity of emotions can feel so strong that some people worry the feelings will overwhelm them or even harm or kill them. The temptation is to panic, push it all back down, or even shut down.
While diverting attention from an overwhelming emotion is sometimes a healthy coping mechanism, it [...]

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Five Tips for Surviving Depression

During the depression experience, there is no normal, 100%, happy day like there once was. Instead, there is a depression process that has its lows and then there are the really, really lows. Every once in a while there is a happy moment. Overall, the journey requires finding your best way through a truly difficult [...]

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Accepting the Unacceptable Reality of Depression

One of the hardest things to do is to find an empowering meaning while going through depression. In truth, while in the midst of depression, it may be impossible to answer the questions of “why depression” or “why me?”
Everything has a reason, and depression has one, too. However, the reason for depression may not [...]

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Important Truths You Must Know In Order to Heal Your Depression

If you are currently depressed, then quite possibly over the next days, weeks, and months, you are going to continue to feel very alone, lost, and inadequate as you live through an intensely difficult experience. In all likelihood, your depression isn’t going to lift immediately. In fact, there is no predicting when your depression will [...]

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Five Depression Techniques and Tools to Get You through a Tough Day

Depression is a process. This means that over the course of days, weeks, or even months, depression will bring about many intense mood swings. When those terrible feelings occur, it can feel as if nothing else existed either before or after that all-encompassing dark sadness.
If you are having an especially tough, tough day, check out [...]

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How to Prevent Being Isolated and Completely Alone During Depression

Depression is by its very nature a time to withdraw and move through a process. However, it’s so easy to move beyond the natural withdrawal tendency into isolation. The intense feelings of overwhelm and the heavy burden of depression leaves us assured that no one could possibly want to be around us during this experience. [...]

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Share Your 2010 Creative Ideas and Goals

We’re on the last few days of January 2010. I’m so excited about the possibilities of this year. There’s something different in the air, something exciting. And I see it all around me… people are feeling the influx of creative ideas and putting together their own strategies for a fabulous 2010.
May I share my three [...]

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Healing From the Inside Out

Begin at the place where you find yourself. Are you struggling with a life-long desire for weight loss? The ups and downs of depression? A new injury? Are you pretty healthy, doing okay? Recovering sobriety? Or keeping it together while caring for a sick, elderly, or in need family member? The important point to remember [...]

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Top Ten Best Things to Say to Someone Who Is Depressed

When someone we know or care about is depressed, it can be difficult to know what to say or do. Unless you’ve experienced a similar type of depression, it may be hard to relate to their situation. In addition, we’re often uneasy to be in the presence of intense pain.
Should you try to lighten the [...]

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