In Steven Curtis’s book “Understanding Your Child’s Puzzling Behavior,” he provides a table called “Steps to Understanding and Intervention” that I think can be applied to any problem we depressives encounter in our recovery. You can download the worksheets (described in “Action” at www.lifespanpress.com). Here are his steps: Step 1: Clarification of Concerns Questions to…

A friend recently asked me what, exactly, about counseling was so helpful to me. I thought for a minute and then said, “I go in there with a mess of problems. I’m entangled in them. I’m overwhelmed. I don’t see a way out. She helps me to sort out or separate the different problems–to disentangle…

I started a discussion thread at Group Beyond Blue at Beliefnet Community where we can tackle one of our problems and come up with creative solutions. Here is my post: As you’ll see in Thursday’s post, I’m trying to transform my panic and sadness into concrete steps of action, so I don’t feel so overwhelmed.…

I think I’m smarter today than I was two years ago. At that time had someone forwarded me Newsweek’s interview with James Gordon, founder of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and author of “Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression,” I would have stewed on it and obsessed about it, worrying that…

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